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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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Lawyer
Political Philosopher
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Braintree
Massachusetts
President Adams
J. Adams
President John Adams
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To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
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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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In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.
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I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
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You are apprehensive of monarchy I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
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I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
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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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Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.
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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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Power must never be trusted without a check.
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
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The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.
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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
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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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I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
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There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.
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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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