...I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.
John AdamsTags: separation-of-powers patriot-act scope-of-government
All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
John AdamsThey shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
John AdamsLet us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .
John AdamsTags: knowledge read think cherish
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John AdamsTags: passion facts evidence forefather
We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact!
John AdamsTags: judgment
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John AdamsTags: liberty government
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
John AdamsTags: reading education discernment
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.
John AdamsThe longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
John AdamsTags: enough
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