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Quotation from A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America by John Adams
“The president of Pennsylvania might, upon such an occasion, have recollected one of Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion”
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Chapter IV, Dr. Franklin (Works of John Adams, ed. C. F. Adams, vol. 4 (1851))
Adams answers Franklin's reported comparison of two legislative houses to oxen pulling a wagon both ways, arguing that action and reaction produce rest and stability.
Citation: "The president of Pennsylvania might, upon such an occasion, have recollected one of Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion" — John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Chapter IV, Dr. Franklin (Works of John Adams, ed. C. F. Adams, vol. 4 (1851)). (id a-defence-of-the-constitutions-q8)
Portrait: John Adams, Gilbert Stuart, Public domain.
