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Presidential Quotes by John Adams
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- A government of laws, and not of men.
- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
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- A government of laws, and not of men. — John Adams
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