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During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
John Adams
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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
2Nd U.S. President
Diplomat
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Political Philosopher
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Braintree
Massachusetts
President Adams
J. Adams
President John Adams
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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 had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
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Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
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No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
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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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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
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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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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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I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
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The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
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This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.
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The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.
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All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
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The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
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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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Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.
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Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
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