John Adams Quotes About Society
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
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The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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