"You the one, I the few"/said John Adams/speaking of fears in the abstract/to his volatile friend Mr. Jefferson

John Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) sixth president of the US (1825-29).

Mr. Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) third president of the US (1801-09).

We agree...that the many should have full, fair, and perfect representation. You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

--Adams, John The Works of John Adams Vol.VIII, ed. Charles Francis, pg. 464.