[T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.
John AdamsYou are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
John AdamsThe divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.
John AdamsThere is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the true idea of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men." That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics.
John Adams