Quote by John Adams
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not

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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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. – John Adams

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Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – 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. – John Adams

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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. – Helen Gurley Brown

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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. – Lord Chesterfield

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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think were just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. – David Herbert Donald

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Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. – Kevin Rudd

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