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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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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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A government of laws, and not of men.

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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.

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

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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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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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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 more.

~John Adams

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 30th, 1735

Died: July 4th, 1826

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