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John Adams on Debt

by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 5, 2016 | Economics, economy, Founders, John Adams, New, President, Quotes

“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.” John Adams, First Address to Congress, Nov. 23, 1797

John Adams on Liberty

by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 25, 2015 | Founders, Freedom, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” John Adams, 1765

John Adams on Debt

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, John Adams, Quotes, Subject

“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.” – John Adams, Courtesy of TheForgottenAmerican

John Adams on Democracy

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 12, 2015 | Founders, Government, government, John Adams, Quotes

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Letters to John Taylor (1814), p. 484

John Adams on Science of Government

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Education, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes, Uncategorized

“The science of government is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have...

John Adams on the Making of America

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes

“The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government so different, there was so great a variety of religions, they were composed of so many different nations, their customs, manners, and habits had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had been so...
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I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

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