Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Quote by John Adams
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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John Adams Quotes
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
- I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
- When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Best Quotes
- Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
- To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
- Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
- The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
- Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.