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

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In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

~ John Adams

John Adams Ability Achievement

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

~ John Adams

John Adams Pressure Diamonds

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

~ John Adams

John Adams History Freedom Good

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

John Adams Freedom Writing Thinking