John Adams

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Excerpt from John Adams: A Character Sketch, Including Anecdotes, Characteristics, and Chronology, and John Adams' Speech on the Boston MassacreAmerican young people, and old people too, if they have not thought over the question carefully, are apt to think that all governments should be like ours, demo cratic federated republican. If they should hear that in the western half of China the people had set up a repub lic, they would rejoice at the spread of free government. But experience shows that republics are suited only to very small com munities imbued with a stron g and narrow sense of patriotism and cohesion, or to well-trained lar ger peoples.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.