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  • 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.

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    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)

  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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    War  
    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

  • Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

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    John Adams, Daniel LEONARD, Jonathan SEWALL (1819). “Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc”, p.11

  • Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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    Religious  
    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

  • But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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    Government  
    John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

  • This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

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    Religious  
    John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”

  • [L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

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    Joseph E. SPRAGUE, John Adams (1826). “An Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, etc”, p.36

  • Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

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    John Adams, Daniel LEONARD, Jonathan SEWALL (1819). “Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc”, p.25

  • 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.

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    Religious  
    John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

  • Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

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    Patriotic  
    John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

  • Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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    Government  
    Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.95, UPNE
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John Adams

  • Born: October 30, 1735
  • Died: July 4, 1826
  • Occupation: 2nd U.S. President
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