John Adams

As usual, instead of studying, I clicked my way around the net and found something interesting. This John Adams guy, America's 2nd president, has very Oscar Wilde-ish quotes. Here are some:

“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” (for you, japheth)

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

“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world”

“It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man” (applaud)

“I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth” (but God didn't...we have eternal souls)

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

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