6 Quotes by John Adams about history
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The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole and must be willing to bear the expense of it.
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Europe, thou great theater of arts, sciences, commerce, war, am I at last permitted to visit thy territories?
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This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}
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The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think... Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.
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Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictums of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
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