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John Adams has 137 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically…
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When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should…
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The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost…
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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less…
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If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would…
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Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering…
— Henry Laurens
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[If this call is neglected] I am determined to sustain myself for as long as possible, and die like a soldier who…
— William Barrett Travis
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Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our…
— John Adams
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