"Power always thinks it has a great soul……" — John Adams
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
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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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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of…
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
— John Adams
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I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But…
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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A longsuffering person will endure where others give up. He always thinks about how God has been longsuffering toward him,…
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word,…
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The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that…
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly…
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The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix
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