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Society Quotes by John Adams
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- Fear is the foundation of most governments.
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four…
- 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…
- The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force…
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