American - President | October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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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.
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Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
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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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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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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.
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