history of this quote “Virtue is not always amiable.” by John Adams

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history of this quote “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” by John Adams

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history of this quote “What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?” by John Adams

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history of this quote “In Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.” by John Adams

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history of this quote “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy.” by John Adams

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history of this quote “The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men… On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.” by John Adams

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history of this quote “Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.” by John Adams

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“When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.”

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history of this quote “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right… and a desire to know-but besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded, and envied kind of knowledge. I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” by John Adams

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history of this quote “The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and the executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.” by John Adams

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