From John Adams ( 1735-1826), American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the United States (1797–1801), the first Vice President (1789–1797), and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain, notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772):
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.
From John Adams (1735-1826), American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the United States (1797–1801), the first Vice President (1789–1797), and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain. From notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring, 1772):
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.
From a letter from John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 1818:
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations…This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.
