John Adams
  • Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

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

  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

  • The happiness of society is the end of government.

  • A government of laws, and not of men.