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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
Diplomat
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Political Philosopher
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Braintree
Massachusetts
President Adams
J. Adams
President John Adams
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Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
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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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Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.
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It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.
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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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National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
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He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.
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Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.
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Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
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Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
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Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not if honest man refuse it, others will not.
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.
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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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People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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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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To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
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Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
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The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.
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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.
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