Political Parties and Terrorism

"The real terrors of both parties have always been, and now are, the fear that they shall lose elections, and, consequentlly, the loaves and fishes, and that their antagonists will get them. Both parties have excited articial terrorism, and, if I were summoned as a witness to say, upon oath, which party had excited the most terror, and which had really felt the most, I could not give a more sincere answer than in the vulgar style, "put them in a bag and shake them, and then see which will come out first."

John Adams
2nd President of the United States