"Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not……" — John Adams
"Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
— Teresa of Avila
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
— Lord Acton
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
— Amy Adams
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
— Honore de Balzac
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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