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Government Quotes by John Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- 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…
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- Fear is the foundation of most governments.
- A government of laws, and not of men.
- The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four…
- But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend…
- The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
- We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break…
- ...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…
- We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.…
- As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in…
- The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed…
- The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it, and to furnish…
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