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We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
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A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.
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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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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
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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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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
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It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.
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One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
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Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.
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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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All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
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I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.
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America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.
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When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.
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One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
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The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
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Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
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