"The most sensible and jealous people are so……" — John Adams
"The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of th."
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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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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
— Mary Antin
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail…
— Charles Brent
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.…
— John of Kronstadt
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without…
— Nachman of Breslov
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities…
— Pope John Paul II
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
— Samuel Johnson
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
— Francois Rabelais
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
— Groucho Marx
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
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