John Adams Short Quotes

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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

John Adams
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

John Adams
You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

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Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

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Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty.

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The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

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They [New Yorkers] talk very loud, very fast, and all together.

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I have no confidence in any man who is not exact in his morals.

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The happiness of man as well as his dignity consists in virtue.

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I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

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The liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state.

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The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

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Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

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It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

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Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

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Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

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You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.

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Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

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The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

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Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

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I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

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What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

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Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

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They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

John Adams