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Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.
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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One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
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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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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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It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
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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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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
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Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
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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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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
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Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
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Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.
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I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.
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I shall have the liberty to think for myself.
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