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Quotes By author - Starting with J - John Adams
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity
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I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?
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It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
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