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From Quotes by John Adams
- 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…
- 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…
- But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- ...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never…
- [L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have…
- And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as…
- There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor…
- Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or…
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