WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/adams-john/77742/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>John Adams</b></a></p><blockquote>FEAR is the foundation of most governments; but is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men, in whose breasts it predominates, so stupid, and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.</blockquote><p><b>John Adams</b> (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)<br>Letter (1776-04) to George Wythe, “Thoughts on Government”</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/adams-john/77742/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/adams-john/77742/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=johnadams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>johnadams</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=politicalsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalsystem</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=terror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terror</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a></p>