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John Adams quote: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
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Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.


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JOHN ADAMS We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all...
JOHN ADAMS Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to JOHN ADAMS Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would ...
JOHN ADAMS This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or JOHN ADAMS We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all s...
JOHN ADAMS ...I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.
JOHN ADAMS Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read...
JOHN ADAMS But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish ...
JOHN ADAMS As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian rel...
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
JOHN ADAMS Those who attend to small expenses are always rich
JOHN ADAMS Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human natur...
JOHN ADAMS The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity
JOHN ADAMS The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of...
JOHN ADAMS Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
JOHN ADAMS When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...
JOHN ADAMS Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. JOHN ADAMS You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w...
JOHN ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
JOHN ADAMS I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...
JOHN ADAMS Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capabl...
JOHN ADAMS We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a...
JOHN ADAMS Ontario is so far behind in newborn screening that this is a useful baby step, but there are signifi...
JOHN ADAMS A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican gove...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

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