"Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially……" — John Adams
"Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant."
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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 Classes Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
— Javier Bardem
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You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion…
— Robert Bork
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The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking…
— Eli Broad
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I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is…
— Octavia Butler
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