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John Adams Quotes

«The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers»
«Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: Happiness, Virtue | Keywords: despotism, slavery
«There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: providence
«Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: Virtue | Keywords: republics
«The happiness of society is the end of government.»
«The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity»
«The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice»
«In politics the middle way is none at all.»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: Middle way
«The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity»
«Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.»

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