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We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. John Adams
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When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. John Adams
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. John Adams
A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty. John Adams
A government of laws, and not of men. John Adams
A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one assembly. John Adams
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch. John Adams
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. John Adams
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. John Adams
2nd President of the United States (1797–1801)
October 30th, 1735 - July 4th, 1826
