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Human Quotes by John Adams
- Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
- Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
- 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…
- I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth
- Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane…
- 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…
- If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should…
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