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[Quote No.9641] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
" - John Adams
(1735 – 1826) was an American politician, who served as the second President of the United States between 1797 and 1801. Quoted from Letters to his Wife: Vol. II Letter #78, 1780.
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[Quote No.22312] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." - John Adams
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[Quote No.24526] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." - John Adams
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[Quote No.24527] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing." - John Adams
1765
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[Quote No.24732] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Books minister to man in his search for the enlightenment that reveals the meaning of life." - John Adams Lowe
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[Quote No.35093] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." - John Adams
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[Quote No.36286] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams
One of the 'Founding Fathers' of the United States of America.
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[Quote No.51760] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the 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
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: 'John Adams, Thoughts on Government', 1776.
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[Quote No.57172] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] 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! There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel. In England itself it is punished by boring through the tongue with a red-hot poker. In America it is not better; even in our own Massachusetts, which I believe, upon the whole, is as temperate and moderate in religious zeal as most of the States, a law was made in the latter end of the last century, repealing the cruel punishments of the former laws, but substituting fine and imprisonment upon all those blasphemers upon any book of the Old Testament or New. Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating into the divine authority of those books? Who would run the risk of translating Dupuis? But I cannot enlarge upon this subject, though I have it much at heart. I think such laws a great embarrassment, great obstructions to the improvement of the human mind. Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws. It is true, few persons appear desirous to put such laws in execution, and it is also true that some few persons are hardy enough to venture to depart from them. But as long as they continue in force as laws, the human mind must make an awkward and clumsy progress in its investigations. I wish they were repealed. The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients, which I think will not bear examination, and they ought to be separated." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: one of his last letters to Thomas Jefferson, January 23, 1825.
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[Quote No.63140] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates... to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: Thoughts on Government, 1776.
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[Quote No.64063] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live." - John Adams
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[Quote No.28414] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Genius is sorrow's child. [because to become extraordinary requires extraordinary persistence to overcome the many difficulties that others give up at.]" - John Adams
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[Quote No.44160] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity." - John Adams
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[Quote No.45526] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Adams
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[Quote No.44161] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity!" - John Adams
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[Quote No.64064] Need Area: Mind > General
"[Life-skills:] There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live." - John Adams
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[Quote No.30363] Need Area: Body > Health
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." - John Adams
Second President of the United States of America
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[Quote No.29952] Need Area: Body > General
"[Self-defence and martial arts:] I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), the second President of the United States between 1797 and 1801. Quoted from Letters to his Wife: Vol. II Letter #78, 1780.
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[Quote No.42668] Need Area: Body > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would. Nor is there anything in the common law of England inconsistent with that right." - John Adams
(1735-1826), US Founding Father and 2nd US President.
Quote from the 'Boston Gazette', September 5, 1763, reprinted in 'The Works of John Adams' 438 (Charles F. Adams ed., 1851).
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[Quote No.59442] Need Area: Body > General
"[Aging:] Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." - John Adams
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[Quote No.48741] Need Area: Money > Invest
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams
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[Quote No.37270] Need Area: Money > Spend
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation [or individual].
One is by the sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams
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[Quote No.46250] Need Area: Money > Spend
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country [or a person]. One is by the sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams
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[Quote No.41397] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[All politicians, military and business leaders should be careful not to let power go to their head or else they will soon lose their humility, perspective, efficacy and power. Remember...] Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. [Knowing this the Romans to keep their successful Roman Generals humble when they returned, so the story goes they were always accompanied by a slave who kept repeating to them as the crowd cheered, 'Respice te, hominem te memento' ('Look behind you, remember you are only a man') and 'Memento mori' ('Remember (that you are) mortal').]" - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, diplomat, political theorist and the second President of the United States of America.
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[Quote No.51111] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: in a letter to Abigail Adams, 1780.
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[Quote No.63741] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President.
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[Quote No.64066] Need Area: Work > General
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live!!" - John Adams
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[Quote No.1114] Need Area: Property > General
"[Private property:] Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty." - John Adams
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[Quote No.35414] Need Area: Property > General
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." - John Adams
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[Quote No.42131] Need Area: Property > General
"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty...Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist." - John Adams
A 'Founding Father' of the United States of America.
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[Quote No.42143] Need Area: Property > General
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property [i.e. property rights] is not as sacred as the laws of God ... anarchy [lying, fraud, chaos] and tyranny [force, coercion, violence, 'Rule of the Strongest'] commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not [two of the ten] commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States (1797–1801). Hailing from New England, Adams, a prominent lawyer and public figure in Boston, was highly educated and represented Enlightenment values promoting republicanism. A Federalist, he was highly influential and one of the key Founding Fathers of the United States.
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[Quote No.48749] Need Area: Property > General
"[Private property rights:] The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: 'Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States'.
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[Quote No.50642] Need Area: Property > General
"[Ethics, morality and private property:] The moment the idea is admitted into society that property [especially private property] is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." - John Adams
A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787
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[Quote No.67483] Need Area: Property > General
"[Private property and ownership as the basis for who can make choices about something:] The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." - John Adams
[1787]
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[Quote No.63439] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756.
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[Quote No.64065] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live!" - John Adams
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[Quote No.64574] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President. Source: 'Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America,' 1787.
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[Quote No.67360] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue." - John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President.
Source: Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756.
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[Quote No.68215] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Life-skills:-] There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live." - John Adams
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[Quote No.38774] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man." - John Adams
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[Quote No.67966] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Maslow's Hierarch of Needs includes social status, praise and admiration:-] The rewards ... in this life are esteem and admiration of others -- the punishments are neglect and contempt. . . . The desire of the esteem of others is as real a want of nature as hunger -- and the neglect and contempt of the world as severe a pain as the gout or stone. ...' " - John Adams
US founding father, stated in 1805. This quote was found in the book by Paul Fussell, called 'Class: A Guide Through the American Status System', page(s): 17-20.
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[Quote No.7046] Need Area: Friends > General
"Liberty is always unfinished business. " - John Adams
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[Quote No.19576] Need Area: Friends > General
"In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the members to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influential to fleece the many who are poor." - John Adams
(1735 - 1826) 2nd U.S. President
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[Quote No.26612] Need Area: Friends > General
"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." - John Adams
(1797-1801), the second President of the United States of America
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[Quote No.37094] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who trade liberty for security have neither." - John Adams
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[Quote No.40189] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.
One is by the sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams
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[Quote No.40486] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are a nation of [impartial] laws, not [partial] men." - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist.
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[Quote No.41484] Need Area: Friends > General
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. [Why? Because the majority can always exploit a minority until the minority explodes. It is why human rights, which even a majority in a democracy cannot violate, is so important to stop the numerous preying on the less numerous.]" - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), an American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States (1797–1801).
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[Quote No.42074] Need Area: Friends > General
"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws... [Unalienable individual human rights]" - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), American Founding Father, a Federalist, lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States (1797–1801).
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[Quote No.42075] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), American Founding Father, a Federalist, lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States (1797–1801).
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