John Adams

Quotes by John Adams

 

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

John Adams

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

John Adams

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Fear is the foundation of most governments.

John Adams

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas W. Higginson

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In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

Henry Spencer

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