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John Adams Quotes

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It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones  (John Adams Quotes) Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing  (John Adams Quotes) I agree with you, that in politics the middle way is none at all  (John Adams Quotes) Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country  (John Adams Quotes) Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart  (John Adams Quotes) Riches attract the attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind  (John Adams Quotes) The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation  (John Adams Quotes) Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air  (John Adams Quotes) Fear is the foundation of most government  (John Adams Quotes) Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity  (John Adams Quotes) When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one  (John Adams Quotes) The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea  (John Adams Quotes) Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom  (John Adams Quotes) They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves  (John Adams Quotes) The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting  (John Adams Quotes) As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children  (John Adams Quotes) I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy  (John Adams Quotes) When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more  (John Adams Quotes) All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation  (John Adams Quotes) I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the Earth  (John Adams Quotes) The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations  (John Adams Quotes) While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago  (John Adams Quotes) There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty  (John Adams Quotes) Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak  (John Adams Quotes) Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society  (John Adams Quotes) Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases  (John Adams Quotes) Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell  (John Adams Quotes) Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power  (John Adams Quotes) My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived  (John Adams Quotes) Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other  (John Adams Quotes)
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