"Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.












The happiness of society is the end of government.
More John Adams quotes
"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or pr...
"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
"There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, t...
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
"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.
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
"A government of laws, and not of men