Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.