"It should be your care, therefore, and mine,……" — John Adams
"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
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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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More Abhorrence Quotes
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do…
— Patrick Henry
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
— William Godwin
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You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at…
— Blaise Pascal
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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
— Edward Heath
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
— Bergen Evans
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards…
— John Sergeant Wise
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons,…
— Joseph Rotblat
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.
— Stuart Rose
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