NOTE: This is a historical typing, so quotes are the basis of this typing conclusion.

Adams: "The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."

Adams: "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

Adams: "Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty."

Adams: "Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

Adams: "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."

Adams: "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

Adams: "Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."

Adams: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Adams: "Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."

Adams: "Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."

Adams: "The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."

Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Adams: "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

Adams: "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."

Adams: "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."

Adams: "Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."

Adams: "Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."

Adams: "As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."

Adams: "My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

Adams: "The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."