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I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
2Nd U.S. President
Diplomat
Lawyer
Political Philosopher
Politician
Statesperson
Braintree
Massachusetts
President Adams
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I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.
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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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. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
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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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I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.
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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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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
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