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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.


John Quincy Adams

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JOE GOLD In order to manifest your good characteristics, you must use them.
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JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation
JOHN ADAMS The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or ...
JOHN ADAMS Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so ext...
JOHN ADAMS There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to liv...
JOHN ADAMS It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the...
JOHN ADAMS Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...
JOHN ADAMS Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found with...
JOHN ADAMS The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, th...
JOHN ADAMS