A Revolutionary Thought

"It was to become the password for a revolution. Liberty and property were synonymous. The great John Locke had said it a century before; now a new world must prove it. What a man owned was his, as his soul was his. No prince, no king, no parliament could take it from him without his consent."- Catherine Drinker Bowen's John Adams and the American Revolution

A Revolutionary Thought

"It was to become the password for a revolution. Liberty and property were synonymous. The great John Locke had said it a century before; now a new world must prove it. What a man owned was his, as his soul was his. No prince, no king, no parliament could take it away from him without his consent."-Catherine Drinker Bowen, in John Adams and the American Revolution