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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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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Power must never be trusted without a check.
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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
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The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.
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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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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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During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
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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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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly an aristocratic council or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.
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If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?
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National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
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Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it.
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When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.
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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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Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.
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I shall have the liberty to think for myself.
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We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.
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Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.
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