"It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders……" — John Adams
"It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power"
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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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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
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