Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy AdamsThe art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
John Quincy AdamsWe have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Quincy Adams