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

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." – John Adams

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." – Jonathan Swift