Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ~ John Adams
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John Adams, a Founding Father and the second President of the…
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
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John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States…
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. ~ John Adams
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John Adams, the second President of the United States, was a…
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. ~ John Adams
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John Adams, the second president of the United States, was a…
But a Constitution of Government once changed …
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once…
There is danger from all men. The …
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to…
We have no government armed with power …
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by…
In my many years I have come …
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is…
I must study politics and war that …
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics…
I always consider the settlement of America …
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of…
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may …
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates…
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in …
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution…