The Boston Massacre was a huge riot in Boston, Massachusetts due to resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed five colonists. During this bloody event unlike every man in Boston, John Adams choose to represent the Soldiers because he believed everyone deserved a fair trial. By doing this John Adams is a man of great integrity, courage, and leadership. As John Adams stated, "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." This quote by John Adams is saying that you may want the British Soldiers to be killed only because of their uniforms, but the facts
