| | The day after the event, future Founder [[John Adams]] praised the protest, writing in his diary: | | The day after the event, future Founder [[John Adams]] praised the protest, writing in his diary: |
| | :This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable And striking. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History.<ref>[http://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/view?id=DJA02d100 Diary of John Adams, volume 2]</ref> | | :This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable And striking. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History.<ref>[http://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/view?id=DJA02d100 Diary of John Adams, volume 2]</ref> |