Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Quote by John Adams
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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John Adams Quotes
- 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.
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
- Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
- Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
- All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
- A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
- When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
- Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- I did get a degree in special education.