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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 is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Duty is ours, results are God's.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
All the perplexities, confusions, 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.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 25, 1787
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