John Adams

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced read more

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will read more

I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power read more

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination read more

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.