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John Adams Quotes |
Famous John Adams Presidency Quotes "Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." John Adams Quotes John Adams Quotes Quote 1: "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." Quote 2: "Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." Quote 3: "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." Quote 4: "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." Quote 5: "No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." Quote 6: "Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." Quote 7: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." Quote 8: "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." Quote 9: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." Quote 10: "The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body." Short, Famous John Adams QuotesJohn Adams Presidency Quotes |