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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
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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Massachusetts
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If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?
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Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
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In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.
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The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
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