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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
Massachusetts
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I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.
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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
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I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
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You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
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What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.
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I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.
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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
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I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.
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This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
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[T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.
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All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
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