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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.

Quote by John Adams about moral, people

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Quote by John Adams about soul, power

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Quote by John Adams about power, god

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

Quote by John Adams about liberty, rightness, real estate

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Quote by John Adams about democracy

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Quote by John Adams about independence, glory

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Quote by John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Quote by John Adams about society, happiness, end

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Quote by John Adams about destiny, nation, atheism, blind, essential, faith, man

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Quote by John Adams about criminals, nation, rightness

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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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.

Quote by John Adams about danger, liberty, man, power, public

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no...

Quote by John Adams about things, thinking, writing, hope, people, contentment

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Quote by John Adams

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right...

Quote by John Adams about question, rightness, man

A DUP demand for the humiliation of republicans is not only unacceptable, it will not happen and it has no place in a process of peace making.

Quote by Gerry Adams about peace

Against mighty odds you held the line and faced down a huge military foe, the British Crown Forces and their surrogates in the unionist death squads.

Quote by Gerry Adams about prison, army, force, death, contentment

And more than that, when elements within the British and Irish establishments and rejectionist unionism delayed progress, it was the IRA leadership which authorised a number of significant initiatives to enhance the peace process.

Quote by Gerry Adams about leadership, progress, numbers, peace

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Quote by Gerry Adams about army, leadership, time