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«Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, bloody, Commit Suicide, exhausts, lasts, monarchies, monarchy, murders, The monarchy, wastes
«This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it»
«Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart»
«Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.»
«Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
constitution, inadequate, religious, the government, wholly
«The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
affections, American Revolution, commenced, commences, duties, effected, Hearts of, obligations, radical, Radical Change, religious war, revolution, sentiments, The American Revolution, the revolution, The War
«The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion»
«That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Majority,
Minority
| Keywords:
demonstrated, demonstrates, demonstrating, desires, History of, History of the, inhumanity, injustice, injustices, majority, minority, page, The History, The History of
«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.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
atheist, believed, civilize, civilizing, Hebrews, instrument, Jews, Jews as, nations, ordain, ordained, ordains
«If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?»
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