A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.127, UPNE
