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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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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and…
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Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic…
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What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was…
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I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
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When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was…
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The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated:…
— Marina Abramovic
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When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I…
— Josephine Baker
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I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to…
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was…
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Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing…
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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or…
— Laurie Lee
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The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had…
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