No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.


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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS
We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
JACK ADAMS
We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Ja...
JACK ADAMS
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close t...
JACK ADAMS
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
JACK ADAMS
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert ...
JACK ADAMS
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that...
JACK ADAMS
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
JACK ADAMS
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
JACK ADAMS
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
JACK ADAMS
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
JACK ADAMS
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at he...
JACK ADAMS
Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
JACK ADAMS
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbe...
JACK ADAMS
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
JACK ADAMS
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
JACK ADAMS
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
JACK ADAMS
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, a...
JACK ADAMS
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one...
JACK ADAMS
After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
JACK ADAMS
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai...
GERRY ADAMS
I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS