Quote by John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

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Imagination
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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Desires
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. – John Foster Dulles

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Its counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. – John Sununu

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It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. – Rick Perry

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. – James Russell Lowell

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I sing like I feel. – Ella Fitzgerald

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Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless hes been in so long that it just doesnt matter, and hes not running for president. But its just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and youre just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. – Mark Russell

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If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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famous

Dont ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, dont mean theyre not an important person. You just dont ever know who youre gonna meet in life. So thats why I look at everybody as equal. Cant just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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