John Adams

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

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.