"I must not write a word to you……" — John Adams
"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."
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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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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a…
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
— Aristophanes
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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