"When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone." — John Adams
"When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone."
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John Adams
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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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More Corrupted Quotes
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous…
— Charley Reese
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The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too…
— Edward V. Long
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too…
— William Shakespeare
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does…
— Thomas Paine
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will…
— Noah Webster
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[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
— Algernon Sidney
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
— Albert Einstein
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Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.
— Manis Friedman
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
— Seneca the Younger
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