Commonlit- Two Famous Friends. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to PART A? ( I choose A for part which was ''Like many friends, Jefferson and Adams disagreed, but their disagreements often had political results.)

A :''Adams had said,'Well, I understand that you are to beat me in this contest, and I will only say that I will be as faithful as subject as any you will have.'' (Paragraph 9.)

B: ''Mr. Adams, this is no personal contest between you and me. Two systems of government divide our fellow citizens into two parties. With one of these you concur, and I with the other.'' (Paragraph 10)

C. '' And since he felt that Adam's appointment of judges was a personal attack, Jefferson had the new law repealed. This meant that Adam's son John Quincy Adams, lost his post.'' (Paragraph 12.)

D. ''Dr. Rush called the rift between Jefferson and Adams 'a national misfortune.' After all, the two men were symbols of American Independence.'' (Paragraph 14.)

It is much safer to be feared than loved. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty . . but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. . that it is true his other virtues would not have been sufficient for him may be proved by the case of scipio, that most excellent man . . his army rebelled in spain; this arose from nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his soldiers more license than is consistent with military discipline. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli which words in the passage have negative connotations?inhuman, cruelty, rebelled how do the words with negative connotations support the claim?by defining the actions of a leader who is to be feared