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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
2Nd U.S. President
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Braintree
Massachusetts
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A government of laws, and not of men.
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Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
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[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.
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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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Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests in short against the gates of earth and hell.
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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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Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.
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Ideology is the science of idiots.
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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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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
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The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
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Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.
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The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
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It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
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Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.
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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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I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
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As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
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There is nothing I dread so much as the 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 apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.
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I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
John Adams
