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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

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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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Massachusetts
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
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I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.
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The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
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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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I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
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Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
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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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