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John Adams Quotes

«The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence»
«I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: Mathematics, Politics | Keywords: My Sons, sons
«Fear is the foundation of most governments.»
«A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: Democracy | Keywords: oak, oak tree, republic, temple
«Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence»
«There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.»
«Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.»
«Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.»
«It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: Ideas
«Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.»

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