OBSERVATIONS FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS The Patriot Post – Mid-Day Digest
JOHN ADAMS
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
— (1770)
We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.
— (1797)
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.
— (1815)
Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.
— (1826)
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.
