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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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People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.
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The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly an aristocratic council or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.
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When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.
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[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
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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.
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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
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I shall have the liberty to think for myself.
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There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
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Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.
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If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.
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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
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It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.
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One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
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It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.
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There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
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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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I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.
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