https://t.inks.page/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State?t=2026-04-11 What are the Qualifications of a Secretary of State? He ought to be a Man of universal Reading in Laws, Governments, History. Our whole terrestrial Universe ought to be summarily comprehended in his Mind.

• John Adams, as quoted in Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784–1822 (1927), edited by Worthington C. Ford, Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 57

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