{"id":2464,"date":"2005-02-21T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2015-05-17T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:13:56","slug":"1770-john-adams-trust-no-man-living-with-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"1770: John Adams:  \u201ctrust no man living with power\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Adams again, in one of his eternal themes &#8211; This is from a journal entry, in 1770:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable &#8230; There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=188301123X&#038;asins=188301123X&#038;linkId=7HGFVOKGZKZI2NSP&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Adams again, in one of his eternal themes &#8211; This is from a journal entry, in 1770: Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable &#8230; There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1494,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102094,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/102094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}