Quote by John Adams
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. - John Adams

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. – John Adams

Other quotes by John Adams

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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Imagination
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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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power
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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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God
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Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. – Caleb Bingham

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One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. – Gaston Bachelard

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Past, the

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson

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Past, the

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebodys good old days. – Gerald Barzan

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Past, the

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It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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