When Nations are corrupted, and generally grown vicious when they are intoxicated with Wealth or Power, and by this means delivered over to the Government of the baser Passion of their Nature, it is very natural that they should act an irrational part. They are really as a Body in a State Drunkenness. They neither act nor think like men in sound Health, and in possession of their Senses. Ambition, Avarice and Pleasure, when they prevail among the Multitude of a Nation to a certain degree, produce the appearance of a general Delirium and Intoxication.
John Adams, letter to Edmund Jenings, June 11, 1780
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