John Adams: Thoughts on Government

( 1776 ) Commentary by Richard Alan Ryerson, Ph.D.

“The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is best.” - Thoughts on Government
“There is no good government but what is republican.… The only valuable part of the British constitution is so; because the very definition of a republic is ‘an empire of laws, and not of men.'” - Thoughts on Government

John Adams (Library of Congress)

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