5 Quotes by John Adams about revolution
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We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
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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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Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!
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We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.
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I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.
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