"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
-John Adams
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"Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.“
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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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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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