John Adams Quotes About Freedom And Liberty
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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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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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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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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
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The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
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That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.
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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
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The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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