John Adams | imagination
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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John Adams | imagination
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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John Adams | hope
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.
John Adams | great
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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John Adams | government
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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