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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
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I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
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I will be correspondent to command,And do my spiriting gently.
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This regime will never agree to form a government of national unity to govern a transition. All we c...
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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
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What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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If goods don t cross borders, armies will.
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We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and hav...
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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
, SPEECH AT HARPERS FERRY, VIRGINIA, AUGUST 1906
Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
DAN SIMMONS
As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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Do not wait, the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and use whatever method you...
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I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's...
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If Jefferson'...
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She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions
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Nothing will work unless you do. —John Wooden What
CHRISTINE PORATH
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.
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Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you...
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The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will....
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I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.
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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
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I will be correspondent to command.
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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools ...
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Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tool...
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You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
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Nations have leaders, mobs have cheaters.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
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I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will
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Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all ...
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Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.
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Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule
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Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
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Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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Overall, this tournament will be tougher than states. If you go 2-2 or 3-2 there, why can't you do i...
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
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It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' sugges...
CHARLES DICKENS
Judge Bradfield did not intend to injure Mr. Adams or place him in fear of a battery.
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The Standard of Truth has been erected. No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing. Perse...
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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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