John Adams
  • Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  • 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.

  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  • Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.