Human nature itself is evermore
an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature
a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong.
A love of truth and a veneration of virtue.
These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"…
If the people are capable of understanding,
seeing and feeling the differences
between true and false,
right and wrong,
virtue and vice,
to what better principle can
the friends of mankind apply
than to the sense of this difference?
-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: the Novanglus, 1775