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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. – John Adams

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy…. – John Adams

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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