"The whole drama of the world is such……" — John Adams
"The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle."
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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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Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do…
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and…
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends…
— Eric Bana
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
— P T Barnum
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I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.
— Adele
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I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is…
— Bruce Beresford
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Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'
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My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale…
— Lewis Black
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I believe there should be no more drama, but it's everywhere you go. It's just about how you get out.…
— Mary J. Blige
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical…
— Orlando Bloom
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