John adams

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

A government of laws, and not of men.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the...