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Letter "J" » John Adams Quotes
«I have lived long enough, and had experience enough of the conduct of governments and people, nations and courts, to be convinced that gratitude, friendship, unsuspecting confidence, and all the amiable passions in human nature, are the most dangerou»
«My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived»
«The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not»
«The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of th»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Jealousy
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attentive, beyond doubt, deprive, instances, least resistance, oppressions, rulers
«Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.»
«As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children»
«Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
«Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''»
«Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
«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.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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circulation, coin, confederation, downright, perplexities
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