John Adams

Though any number of quotes from John Adams may relate to the remembering of the tragic events of 9-11-01, this one just seemed to ring of liberty. It sings of the way John Adams considered liberty a product of the people; the way he considered it a product of the power that people have when they work together.

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”