Alan Stallion
Civil Rights Advocate
"The fundamental article of my political creed is, that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor; equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical."
- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1815, in H. A. Washington The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington: Taylor & Maury, 1853-4) vol. 6, p. 500.