The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.
John AdamsWithout religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
John AdamsThe people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.
John Adams