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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
President Adams
J. Adams
President John Adams
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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
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It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
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Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
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Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
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The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
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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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My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
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There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.
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I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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