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One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
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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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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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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Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
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There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
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It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
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I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
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As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
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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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It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.
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A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.
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Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
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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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The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
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Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.
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