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Man Quotes by John Adams
- 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…
- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions…
- I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
- You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
- No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
- Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
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