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• The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

  John Adams

  Effort, World, Constitution

  John Adams (1794). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778”, p.506

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• I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

  John Adams

  Thinking, Liberty, Positive Atheism

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.35

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• I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

  John Adams

  Events, Determined, Virtue

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• It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.

  John Adams

  God, Religious, Hurt

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.96, Hackett Publishing

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• It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

  John Adams

  War, Understanding, Drug

  "Justice Often Served By Jury Nullification". www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2005.

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• The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

  John Adams

  Drama, Tragedy, World

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.127

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• The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

  John Adams

  Foundation, Morality

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.75, Penguin

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• Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

  John Adams

  Thanks, Knows

  Letter from John Adams to Edmund Jenings, founders.archives.gov. September 27, 1782.

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• Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

  John Adams

  Teacher, Teaching, Memorable

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• Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

  John Adams

  Real, Liberty, Mankind

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• We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

  John Adams

  Virtue, Parliament, Humankind

  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.116, UPNE

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• National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

  John Adams

  Party, Differences, Voting

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• Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

  John Adams

  Life, Nature, Gun

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.438

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• The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

  John Adams

  Patriotic, Government, Hands

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.76, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

  John Adams

  Conversation, Persons, Subjects

  John Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.306

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• Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

  John Adams

  Fall, Bad Ass, Justice

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1983). “Papers of John Adams”

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• Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

  John Adams

  Abuse, Usual, Goes On

  John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Lester Jesse Cappon, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live; forasmuch as it makes exceedingly for the preservation of the present government, whatsoever it be.

  John Adams

  Children, Government, Principles

  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

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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.

  John Adams

  Gun, Rights, Second Amendment

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• There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.

  John Adams

  Heart, Branches, Kind

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• The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Faith Religion, Atheism

  "Fictional character: John Adams". "Spirit", Book by William Edelen, 1989.

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• In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

  John Adams

  Education, Mother, Children

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.75, Penguin

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• The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

  John Adams

  Exercise, Men, Law

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.94, Hackett Publishing

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• The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost... There is no Authority civil or religious: there can be no legitimate Government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All, without it is Rebellion and Perdition, or in more orthodox words Damnation.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religious, Government

  John Adams' letter to Benjamin Rush (December 21, 1809), as quoted in "No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must Be Administered by the Holy Ghost" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.

  John Adams

  Lunch, Giving, Mind

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