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“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams”
― Sherman Edwards, 1776

tags: congress, government, inefficiency

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“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.”
― John Quincy Adams

tags: principle, vote

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“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― John Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

tags: dogmatism, john-quincy-adams, superstition

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“When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.”
― John Adams

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“Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.”
― John Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (Adams Papers)

tags: petrarch, tacitus, universal-empire

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