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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inc

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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I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom. – 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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