John Adams Quote

"The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society."

By:	John Adams (more quotes by John Adams or books by/about John Adams)
	(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Date:	February 6, 1775
Source:	Novanglus and Massachusettensis, by John Adams, p. 34, ADDRESSED To the inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay http://books.google.com/books?id=HMTHIs77pbcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false
Kindle Source:	Novanglus and Massachusettensis, by John Adams, p. 34, February 6, 1775<br/> addressed to the inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay
Categories:	Corruption, Dependence, Honor, Integrity, Respect, Servitude, Society, Welfare
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Kindle Categories:	Usurpation