John Adams - Second American PresidentQuotations
"Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion...in
private defense."
"The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living
with power to endanger the public liberty."
"The vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm spit." Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to
keep them in working order.
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- John Adams Thomas Jefferson--still surv... - John Adams' dying words
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