The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be…

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .