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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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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. – 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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

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