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I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
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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Braintree
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J. Adams
President John Adams
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
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Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
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The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.
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Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
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One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
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I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.
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Thomas Jefferson survives.
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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
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The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.
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America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.
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My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!
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Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
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The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
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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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