"Let us dare to read, think, speak and…" — John Adams

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128 Quotes by John Adams

John Adams has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man…
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. — Drew Barrymore
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. — John Adams
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. — John Barrymore
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.… — Jean Baudrillard
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking… — John Bonham
I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you… — Bono
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there… — Tony Abbott
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of… — David Bowie
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. — Anne Bronte

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