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John Adams Quotes

«The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natur»
«It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: Weakness | Keywords: renders, unfit, unlimited, wickedness
«Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness»
«I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame»
«Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost»
«Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: mobs
«Those who attend to small expenses are always rich»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: attend to, expenses
«Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level»
«Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: Good Stuff
«These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion»

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