John Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: 2nd U.S. President
Life: October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826
Birthday: October 30
Death: July 4
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.
source: John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.43
topic: Cancer, People, Giving, Deceiver, Encroachment
