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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."

John Adams

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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."

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"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."

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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."

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"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."

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Politics
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

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PoliticsWar
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"In politics the middle way is none at all."

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PoliticsSuccess
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"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."

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"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."

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Men
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