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John Adams
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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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.

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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.

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