John Adams
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"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."
"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."
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."