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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
John Adams

tags: christianity, john-adams, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, treaty-of-tripoli-1796

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“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.”
John Adams

tags: constitution, founding-fathers

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“Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.”
John Adams

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“A government of laws, and not of men”
John Adams

tags: government

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“Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right”
John Adams

tags: john-adams, stubbornness

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“I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
John Adams

tags: government, law, philosophy, politics

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“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think... Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.”
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“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
John Adams

tags: inspirational

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“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

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“There are two types of people, those who make commitments and those who keep them.”
John Adams

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“Europe, thou great theater of arts, sciences, commerce, war, am I at last permitted to visit thy territories?”
John Adams

tags: america, american-history, england, europe, france, history, john-adams, us-history

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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other... The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People... they may change their Rulers, and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty... A Constitution of Government once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
John Adams

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“It is the Will of Heaven, that the two Countries should be sundered forever. It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the Case, it will have this good Effect, at least: it will inspire Us with many Virtues, which We have not, and correct many Errors, and Vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy Us. – The Furnace of Affliction produces Refinement, in States as well as Individuals…. But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.”
John Adams

tags: america, faith, independence

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“At their Entertainments there is no Conversation that is agreable. There is no Modesty—No Attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and alltogether. If they ask you a Question, before you can utter 3 Words of your Answer, they will break out upon you, again—and talk away.”
John Adams

tags: 1774, american-reolution, founding-fathers, new-york-city

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“To be good and to do good, is all we have to do.”
John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

tags: good, goodness, personal-character

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“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue”
John Adams

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“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think. . . . Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
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“The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind; and afterward the history of one peculiar nation, certainly the most extraordinary nation that has ever appeared upon the earth.”
John Adams, Build Upon the Rock: Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son on the Bible and Its Teachings

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“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”
John Adams

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“If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of (Ignatius de) Loyola.”
John Adams

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“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.”
John Adams

tags: founding-fathers, politics, virtue

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“Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictums of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
John Adams

tags: american-history, evidence, facts, history, john-adams, law

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“I refuse to suffer in silence. I sighed, sobbed, and groaned, and sometimes screeched and screamed. and I must confess to my shame and sorrow that I sometimes swore.”
John Adams

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“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
John Adams

tags: founding-fathers, inspirational, liberty

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“It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities, unless the discovery prompts us to amendment.”
John Adams, Build Upon the Rock: Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son on the Bible and Its Teachings

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“Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even though we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not.”
John Adams

tags: independence-day, optimism

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“I am so well satisfied with my present simplicity that I am determined never to depart from it!”
John Adams

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“Poets read history to collect flowers, not fruits.”
John Adams

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“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
John Adams

tags: 2nd-u-s-president

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“Upon common theaters, he said, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actor than his own approbation. But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss.”
John Adams

tags: conscience

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