“All societies of man must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent state government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Man, in a word, must necessarily be controlled; either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man.”
John Quincy Adams
