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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. - John Adams

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government. - John Adams

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams

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. - John Adams

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

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. - John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most governments. - John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. - John Adams

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

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. - John Adams

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? - John Adams

A government of laws, and not of men. - John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

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