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Men 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…
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still…
- A government of laws, and not of men.
- 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.
- If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
- 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.
- The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the…
- Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
- ' I pray heaven bestow the best of blessings on this house, and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and…
- The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation
- It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power
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