John Adams

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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.

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

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