
Notas para una oración en Braintree, primavera de 1772.
Original: «There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty».
Fuente: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Editor Elizabeth M. Knowles. Colaborador Elizabeth M. Knowles. Edición revisada. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780198601739. p. 3.