Friends Divided Quotes

“The very first Maxim of Tyranny, is and always was, to puzzle the Understandings and excite the Admiration of the People.”
― Gordon S. Wood, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

“[John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him.”
― Gordon S. Wood, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg”—”
― Gordon S. Wood, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

“republics required sufficient virtue in the character of their citizens to prevent corruption and eventual decay.”
― Gordon S. Wood, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson