Thursday, November 17, 2005

Quotes from former Pres. John Adams.....

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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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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Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
(Think that is why the U.S.A. is supposed to be a Republic, isn't it?)
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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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.
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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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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.
- John Adams

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