569 Quotes by John Adams

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    Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!

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    To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

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    During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

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    It was a total team effort, I couldn't be happier about it. We've done some great things as a dual-meet team. We've overcome some adversities as a dual-meet team. I compare it to the Pats in 2001 when they presented as a team. That's our strength. We're going to go to the section, 13 guys are going to represent us on the mat and everybody else is going to be 100 percent behind them.

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    As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

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    It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

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    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.

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    It really crackles back and forth with dialogue, especially in the first act, where people really scream at one another, as they should.

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