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John Adams  Quotes
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.

—John Adams

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LawLawsSupport
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These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion

—John Adams

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Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

—John Adams

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The old boys are really looking forward to this,

—John Adams

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Boys
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Be not intimidated…nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and...

—John Adams

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ChicaneryCowardiceDecency
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the...

—John Adams

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By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United...

—John Adams

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AmericaChristian-FaithChristian-Nation
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There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God

—John Adams

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God
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I have lived long enough, and had experience enough of the conduct of governments and people, nations and courts, to be convinced that gratitude, friendship, unsuspecting confidence, and all the amiable passions in human nature,...

—John Adams

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Experience
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We can change it, we will and we must. We don’t have to change parties, we have to change direction. Less taxes and less government when we do those two things we will be able...

—John Adams

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While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall...

—John Adams

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MannersPolitics
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

—John Adams

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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

—John Adams

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American President Quotes
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

—John Adams

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I agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.

—John Adams

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Politics
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I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or...

—John Adams

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DemocracyPolitical-Philosophy
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Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.

—John Adams

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must...

—John Adams

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Cannot
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Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

—John Adams

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Anxiety
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Jobs and job training will be critical next year. Retraining and education will be key in order for us to be able to keep the companies we have and be able to attract new businesses.

—John Adams

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Education
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It was a faith-based group that brought him to this country as a refugee from Cuba and sent him on a path toward the American dream,

—John Adams

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Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

—John Adams

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part...

—John Adams

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ‘that these United...

—John Adams

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This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it

—John Adams

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Religion
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Politics are the divine science, after all

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But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your...

—John Adams

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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble...

—John Adams

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The happiness of society is the end of government.

—John Adams

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I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth

—John Adams

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Statesmen…may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand…. The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and...

—John Adams

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The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult

—John Adams

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And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva...

—John Adams

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Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

—John Adams

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Advice
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

—John Adams

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Fortunately I had a good partner. That was the only thing that saved me. This one taught me. My partner saved my life. From now on, I’ll definitely be a lot more critical of who...

—John Adams

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The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country

—John Adams

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Importance
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Call it then, … the Age of Paine.

—John Adams

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Age And Aging
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

—John Adams

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Poetry
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

—John Adams

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The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

—John Adams

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Creation
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Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics

—John Adams

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Virtue
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Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness

—John Adams

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My fixed principle never to be the tool of any man, nor the partisan of any nation, would forever exclude me from the smiles and favors or courts

—John Adams

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Man
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A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

—John Adams

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CuriosityPracticalityReading
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

—John Adams

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Guilt
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America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs

—John Adams

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America
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What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts...

—John Adams

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Books And Reading
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The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not

—John Adams

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We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet...

—John Adams

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Judgment
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