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… is from Abigail Adams’s letter of November 27th, 1775, to her husband, John Adams [2] – a letter quoted on page 101 of David McCullough’s 2001 John Adams [3]:
I am more and more convinced that Man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping, and like the grave cries give, give.