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People 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.
- Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
- ...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…
- 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…
- When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
- Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and…
- As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in…
- The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed…
- I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a…
- That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the…
- The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the…
- Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and…
- Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties;…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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