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Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
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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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
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Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.
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I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
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A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.
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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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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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Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.
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I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.
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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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