The Pessimist Who Saw America's Weakness Before It Fell John Adams, the second president of the United States, understood something that most of the other founders did not fully grasp: great…
John Adams — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
John Adams has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Ben Shapiro Show, American History Tellers. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What John said
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
— John Adams
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
— John Adams
“Every simple form of government carries the seeds of its own corruption... Hand all the power to the many, democracy... it would rot into what [Adams] called rage, violence, and licentiousness.”
— Ben Shapiro, summarizing John Adams
Episode appearances
2 
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