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I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the mem

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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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams

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I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. – John Adams

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People who think by the inch and talk by the yard deserve to be kicked by the foot. – Anon.

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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. – Aeschylus

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La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle. – John Quincy Adams

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Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. – Comtesse Diane (Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq), Maximes de la vie, 1908

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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. – Timothy McVeigh

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I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. – Diane Abbott

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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