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  1. David McCullough _ John Adams

    Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams
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  2. David McCullough _ John Adams

    As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.
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  3. David McCullough _ John Adams

    Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.
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  4. David McCullough _ John Adams

    The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.
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  5. David McCullough _ John Adams

    I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.
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  6. David McCullough _ John Adams

    Remove yourself, sir!
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  7. David McCullough _ John Adams

    Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people... There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all the others by size or figure or beauty and variety of colors in the human hive. No man has yet produced any revelation from heaven in his favor, any divine communication to govern his fellow men. Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike... The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation it is impossible they should be enslaved. Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable... There is a danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living wth power to endanger public liberty.
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  8. David McCullough _ John Adams

    We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
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  9. David McCullough _ John Adams

    The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
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  10. David McCullough _ John Adams

    You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition."Spoken by Abigail Adams
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  11. David McCullough _ John Adams

    According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing {pf the Declaration of Independence}, but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it.Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount.Reasons enough," Adams said.What can be your reasons?"Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.
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  12. David McCullough _ John Adams

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