Tag: John Adams
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
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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.
John Adams
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams
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Genius is sorrow’s child.
John Adams
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The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
John Adams
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I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
John Adams
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams