The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.John Adams
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.
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Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
John Adams
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
John Adams
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
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