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Rights As Freemen
No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state… Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizens and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights…
Read MoreReal Despotism
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of…
Read MoreCharacters
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. Letter to James Warren November 4, 1775
Read MoreDuty
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. John Adams Letter to James Lloyd January 1815
Read MoreNever Forget
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. Joseph Story Commentaries…
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