The following is a quote by Jon Adams in 1775. It proves, once again, that human nature never changes. Socialism will not work because people are people. 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. --John Adams, to the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1775
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:18:11 +0000
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