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2nd U S President Inspirational Quotes (195)

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The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.
John Adams
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Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
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I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.
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Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
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[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.
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All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
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Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.
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This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!
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I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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[T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.
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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
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Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
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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.
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The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
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I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.
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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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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
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During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
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As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.
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I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
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