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government John Adams

John Adams | government

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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government John Adams

John Adams | government

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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government John Adams

John Adams | government

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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God John Adams

John Adams | god

Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.

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freedom John Adams

John Adams | freedom

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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freedom John Adams

John Adams | freedom

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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Fear John Adams

John Adams | fear

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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design John Adams

John Adams | design

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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Quote from John Adams | age

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