John Adams
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
“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.”
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”
“Facts are stubborn things.”