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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
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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.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
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 (1735 - 1826)
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
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Results from Classic Quotes:

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814

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