"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without……" — John Adams
"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics"
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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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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
— John Berger
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the…
— William Blake
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They…
— Nellie Bly
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
— Albert Camus
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
— Frances Wright
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
— John Keats
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
— Rajneesh
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology…
— Jean Genet
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no…
— Rajneesh
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