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Ideology is the science of idiots.
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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Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
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Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
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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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A government of laws, and not of men.
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When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
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There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.
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Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
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Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
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The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings.
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Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.
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Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
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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.
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It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
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Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.
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