"It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising
in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred
millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is
impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try
the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of
education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial
inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions
of right and wrong, virtue and vice."
--John Adams,
letter to Count Sarsfield, 1786
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