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Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.
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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People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.
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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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Thomas Jefferson survives.
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Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.
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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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Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.
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It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
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I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
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Ideology is the science of idiots.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.
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We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
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My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
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This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!
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Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
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They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
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They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
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