"As the happiness of the people is the……" — John Adams
"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 reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things"
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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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More Consent Quotes
This quote is filed under Consent Quotes,
one of 364 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
— Albert Camus
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in…
— Albert Camus
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One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without…
— Kyle Chandler
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence,…
— William Ellery Channing
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I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.
— Diablo Cody
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
— William Shakespeare
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they…
— Bruno Jasienski
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned…
— Christopher Columbus
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The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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