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

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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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.

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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.

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