"The fundamental law of the militia is, that……" — John Adams
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
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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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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the…
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had…
— Joan of Arc
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a…
— Walter Scott
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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I will keep my body charged with energy for fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with that which is commanded…
— Walter Russell
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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must…
— Barack Obama
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.…
— Francis Bacon
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Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet…
— John Owen
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Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created…
— Christopher Hitchens
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