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Liberty 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.
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
- 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…
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination…
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now…
- Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
- 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.
- Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
- I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy,…
- 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 jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking,…
- You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
- 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…
- This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
- [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…
- No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often…
- Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue
- I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order…
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