Fear is the foundation of most governments. ✨ 'Thoughts on Government'…

John Adams
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Fear is the foundation of most governments. ✨ 'Thoughts on Government' (1776)
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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. ✨ John Adams (2016). John Adams: Writings fr … ▶
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle ✨ John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). Old Family Letters: Copied from the O … ▶
Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right. ✨ Letter from John Adams to Edmund Jenings, founders.archives.gov. September 27, 1782.

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