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Fear is the foundation of most governments. - John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most governments. – John Adams

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. – John Adams

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Freedom
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John Adams
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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. – John Adams

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Nature
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John Adams
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. – Lord Byron

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Fear

The thing about Republicans is that they dont care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. – Jane Smiley

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Fear

Id make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list. – Kristen Wiig

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Fear

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, thats spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. – Ron Chernow

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Fear

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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. – Scott Alexander

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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. – B.C. Forbes

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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. – Swami Vivekananda

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Its always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me. – Yoshihisa Tabuchi

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