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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
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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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All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
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When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.
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Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
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Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it.
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
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When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
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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.
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