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John Adams

"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."

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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

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"In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign."

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
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"A government of laws, and not of men."
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"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
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