John Adams | government
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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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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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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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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