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You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
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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J. Adams
President John Adams
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Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
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The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
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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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