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John Adams has 137 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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When you see a good move, look for a better one.
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself…
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I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is…
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This is the better one. It's identical.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
— James Anthony Froude
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I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one…
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I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait…
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It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one…
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There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.
— Raul Julia
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If intimidation is your game plan, I hope you have a better one.
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