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Results of search for Author: John Adams - Page 1 of 1
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Facts are stupid things.: Ronald Reagan '88, a slight misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."
This is the last of earth! I am content.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), last words, 21 February 1848.
Jefferson still survivies.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), last words after a lifetime competing with Thomas Jefferson
...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), (Diary, 1786)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

Thomas Jefferson still lives.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier-July 4th, 1826
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), 11 Oct 1798, Charles Francis Adams, ed., The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, 1854, 9:229

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