180 ordspråk av John Adams
John Adams
John Adams föddes den October 30th 1735 och dog den 4 July 1826 - (1797-1801).
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 A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building |
| 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. |
| A government of laws and not of men |
| A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution |
| Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society |
| All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. |
| Always stand on principle even if you stand alone. |
| America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs |
| An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be dead |
| And before I knew it one came up and then immediately punches started coming from all directions and all I could do was drop and just protect myself. |
| Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. |
| As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children |
| As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things |
| Back in the 1950s and 1960s, everybody had a hobby. It takes a lot of time. I've been teaching 4-H kids how to build planes for 30 years. |
| Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. |
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