"Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic……" — John Adams
"Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend."
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128 Quotes by John Adams
John Adams has 128 quotes on this site.
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
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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…
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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…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man…
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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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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther…
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
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