"Fear is the foundation of most governments." — John Adams

"Fear is the foundation of most governments."

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128 Quotes by John Adams

John Adams has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man…
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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More Conspiracy Quotes

This quote is filed under Conspiracy Quotes, one of 334 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

People love conspiracy theories. — Neil Armstrong
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the… — John Avlon
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy… — John le Carre
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book… — Harlan Coben
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and… — Martin Amis
From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. — J. Edgar Hoover

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