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Letter "J" » John Adams Quotes
«America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
accustomed, customs, destined, One Nation, peopled, political system, political systems, professes, professing, social system, social systems, tenor, Tenors
«The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
lower rank, lowest, preservation, public property, ranks
«A government of laws and not of men»
Author: John Adams
(President)
«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.»
«I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
emancipation, illumination, illuminations, slavish, The Settlement
«I agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
«Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?»
Author: John Adams
(President)
«When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones»
«You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket»
«The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult»
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