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John Adams Quotes

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Power always thinks. That it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws  (John Adams Quotes) In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress  (John Adams Quotes) Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide  (John Adams Quotes) I read my eyes out and can't read half enough... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read  (John Adams Quotes) The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own  (John Adams Quotes) I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof  (John Adams Quotes) I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break  (John Adams Quotes) While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago  (John Adams Quotes) As long as property exists, it will accumulate in individuals and families. As long as marriage exists, knowledge, property and influence will accumulate in families  (John Adams Quotes) Government has no right to hurt the hair of an atheist for his opinions. Let him have a care of his practices  (John Adams Quotes) A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition  (John Adams Quotes) The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country  (John Adams Quotes) Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed  (John Adams Quotes) The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that  (John Adams Quotes) The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?  (John Adams Quotes) Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it  (John Adams Quotes) The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people  (John Adams Quotes) A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty  (John Adams Quotes) Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute  (John Adams Quotes) As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it  (John Adams Quotes) The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government  (John Adams Quotes) All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue  (John Adams Quotes) Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics  (John Adams Quotes) Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?  (John Adams Quotes) There are only two creatures of value on the face of the Earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others  (John Adams Quotes) Life is probation: mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem - right or wrong  (John Adams Quotes) You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!  (John Adams Quotes) No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it  (John Adams Quotes) A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man  (John Adams Quotes) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence  (John Adams Quotes)
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