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Letter "J" » John Adams Quotes
«The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natur»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, body politic, compose, enjoying, furnish, institution, maintenance, politic, The Body Politic, tranquillity
«It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power»
«Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Slavery,
Trust
| Keywords:
breach, breached, breach of trust, consenting, derogatory, offensive, on the offensive, sacrilegious
«I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Ambition,
Jealousy
| Keywords:
avarice, engaged, in public, Public affairs, The Public Interest
«Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
dictate, inmost, popularity, The Practice
«Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies»
«Those who attend to small expenses are always rich»
«Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Body,
Constitution,
God,
Mind
| Keywords:
Almighty, A level, God Almighty, inequalities, No Policy, plane
«Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence»
«These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
declamation, declamations, delusion, dismal, Prophecies, reproaches, triumphs
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