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When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.
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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J. Adams
President John Adams
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.
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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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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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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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Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
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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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They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
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As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.
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Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
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When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.
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They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
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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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