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John Adams

  • While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.... John Adams {view}
  • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power... John Adams {view}
  • Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.... John Adams {view}
  • Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society... John Adams {view}
  • It's unethical for a lawyer to plead his client to the death penalty. As long as that's there, the defense can't do anything.... John Adams {view}
  • Had we known it was 9/11 money, we would not have borrowed it.... John Adams {view}
  • Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.... John Adams {view}
  • There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.... John Adams {view}
  • The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult... John Adams {view}