"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
-John Adams
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"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.“
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
-John Adams
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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
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"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
-John Adams
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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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