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Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion...in private self defense...

- John Adams

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“Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors."

- John Adams

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"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”

- John Adams

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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

-John Adams

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“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

- John Adams, 1775

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“Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”

-John Adams

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"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."

-John Adams

Bonus Quote du jour

"...will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. ... It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade with shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."

-John Adams, on celebrating Independence Day

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Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
-John Adams

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Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom, whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

-John Adams

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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."

- John Adams