Willard, S: John Adams -

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Résumé :
Excerpt from John Adams: A Character Sketch; Including Anecdotes, Characteristics, and Chronology, and John Adams' Speech on the Boston Massacre

American 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.

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