John Adams Quotes There is danger from all men

• 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.
• Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
• Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
• “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.”
• “This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it”

                                                                                                                                                                                               John Adams