Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate to the business of restraining the passions of men, of preserving a steady government, and protecting the lives, liberties, and properties of the people . . . . Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power, which can be resisted only by passions, interest, and power.
John AdamsIt's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished
John AdamsGovernment has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John AdamsThe Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen
John Adams