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I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
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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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Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites . . . & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!
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Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.
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Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
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[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.
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The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
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This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
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