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Democracy 3 quotes2/28/2023 ![]() ![]() – John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, Feb. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. – John Adams, Notes for an oration at Braintree, Spring 1772. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. “Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.” “Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” “Power must never be trusted without a check.” ![]() – John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law. “The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.” “Human passions unbridled by morality and religion…would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.” “…Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. ![]() “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. ![]() – John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, Jul. It implies thought and choice and power.” “Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. “Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” “Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” – John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.” “Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. John Adams Quotes on Freedom and Democracy “When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.” “The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. “Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.” – John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law. “Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.” “You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.” Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. “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 Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, Dec. “I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough…the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.” – John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780. “I must study Politics and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy.” “There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.” ![]()
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