Quote by John Adams
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I

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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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. – John Adams

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows. – James Russell Lowell

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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy. – Benicio Del Toro

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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families. – Nancy Pelosi

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My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves. – Carre Otis

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. – Malcolm Forbes

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For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin. – Frederick W. Faber

If I dont talk about my religion, if I say Im not discussing it or different humanitarian things Im working on, theyre like, Hes avoiding it. If I do talk about it, it becomes, Oh, hes proselytizing. – Tom Cruise

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Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. – Joseph Rotblat

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