他的{约翰·亚当斯（John Adams）的政治哲学的理想是平衡，这绝非偶然，因为他向世界投射了他内心自己内心的矛盾的激情，并将政府视为阻止这些派系和狂暴的平衡机制，从而阻止了这些派系和狂暴的消失。
(It was no accident that the beau ideal of his {John Adams'} political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government as the balancing mechanism that prevented those factions and furies from spending out of control.)