"Power must never be trusted without a check." — John Adams
"Power must never be trusted without a check."
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John Adams
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128 Quotes by John Adams
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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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I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as…
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One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree…
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things…
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When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue…
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You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the…
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The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that…
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Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.
— Jeb Bush
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that…
— Lord Byron
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I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it…
— Kirk Cameron
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
— Truman Capote
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a…
— Madonna Ciccone
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