"Let justice be done though the heavens should…" — John Adams
"Let justice be done though the heavens should fall."
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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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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
— John Adams
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to…
— Samuel Adams
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an…
— Corey Taylor
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My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it…
— Ronald Reagan
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What a glorious morning this is!
— Samuel Adams
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The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily…
— Thomas Paine
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Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised!…
— Samuel Adams
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The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
— Thomas Paine
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Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved…
— Thomas Paine
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