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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.


John Quincy Adams

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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