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John Adams
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Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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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.

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

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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