Founding Issues
Anarchy

  1. "There is a natural and necessary progression, from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny; and arbitrary power is most easily established, on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.20

  2. "[T]here was no anarchy. ... [T]he people of the North American union, and of its constituent States, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians in a state of nature, but not of anarchy. They were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their conduct." - United States Founding Father, John Quincy Adams, "An Address Delivered at the Request of the Committee of Arrangements for the Celebrating the Anniversary of Independence at the City of Washington on the Fourth of July 1821 upon the Occasion of Reading The Declaration of Independence", (Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821), p. 28.

  3. "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ¡°Thou shalt not covet,¡± and ¡°Thou shalt not steal,¡± were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free." - United States Founding Father, John Adams, "A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America", (Philadelphia: William Young, 1797), Vol. III, p. 217, from ¡°The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined,¡± Letter VI.

  4. "[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy ... the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people." 1 "I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments." 2 "[T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God." 3 - United States Founding Father, Signer of the Constitution, Penman of the Constitution, Gouverneur Morris, 1. Gouverneur Morris, "A Diary of the French Revolution" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939), Vol. II, p. 172, April 29, 1791. 2. Morris, Diary, Vol. II, p. 452, to Lord George Gordon, June 28, 1792. 3. Jared Sparks, "The Life of Gouverneur Morris" (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1832), Vol. III, p. 483, from his ¡°Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France.¡±

  5. "[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few." - United States Founding Father, John Adams, "The Papers of John Adams", Robert J. Taylor, editor (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977), Vol. I, p. 83, from ¡°An Essay on Man¡¯s Lust for Power, with the Author¡¯s Comment in 1807,¡± written on August 29, 1763, but first published by John Adams in 1807.

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