We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governme…

John Adams
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We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls. ✨ John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1979). Papers of John Adams
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