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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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Braintree
Massachusetts
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J. Adams
President John Adams
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The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.
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I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
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Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
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They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
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They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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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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I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
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Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
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Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
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We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
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I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.
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