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John Adams Inspirational Quotes (283)

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The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.
John Adams
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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
John Adams
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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
John Quincy Adams
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The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
John Quincy Adams
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams
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Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.
John Adams
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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 Quincy Adams
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They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
John Adams
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Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
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All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
John Adams
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The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.
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Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
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The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.
John Adams
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
John Quincy Adams
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Power must never be trusted without a check.
John Adams
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I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
John Adams
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams
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Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.
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He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.
John Adams
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One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
John Quincy Adams
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I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.
John Adams
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National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
John Adams
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