"Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break……" — John Adams
"Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net."
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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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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New…
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that…
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.…
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The…
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