Tag: John Adams
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Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams
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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.
John Adams
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A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
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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.
John Adams
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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
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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.
John Adams