The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.John Adams
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
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The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge I mean the love of power, which has been so often the cause of slavery, has, whenever freedom has existed, been the cause of freedom
John Adams
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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