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I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

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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God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
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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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Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.
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To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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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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Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
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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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The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
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Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
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The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.
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We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
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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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[T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.
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I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.
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There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
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If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.
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The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.
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