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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)

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The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
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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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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
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Jefferson still survives.

last words after a lifetime competing with Thomas Jefferson

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...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

(Diary, 1786)

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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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John Adams (1735-1826) was a statesman, lawyer, writer, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Prior to that, he was vice president under George Washington, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and the chief American diplomat in Europe during the Revolution. Adams was a vocal advocate for American independence and played a key role in drafting the Declaration of Independence. His presidency was marked by tensions with France and the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts. Despite his historical significance, Adams is often remembered for his political rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, with whom he shared a long and complex correspondence after leaving office. He died on the same day as the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, an event he helped to create.