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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
2Nd U.S. President
Diplomat
Lawyer
Political Philosopher
Politician
Statesperson
Braintree
Massachusetts
President Adams
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President John Adams
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I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.
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Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
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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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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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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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In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.
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Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.
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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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Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.
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One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
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Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
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The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.
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We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
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Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.
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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
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