Zitate von John Adams
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Präsident / 02. / 1797 - 1801 (USA, 1735 - 1826).
John Adams · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
John Adams wäre heute 288 Jahre, 11 Monate, 10 Tage oder 105.536 Tage alt.
Geboren am 30.10.1735 in Braintree/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 04.07.1826 in Braintree/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion
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Weitere 27 Zitate von John Adams
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Das Gück der Gesellschaft ist der Zweck der Regierung.
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Das Wesen einer freien Regierung besteht in einer wirksamen Kontrolle der Rivalitäten.
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Ich muß Politik und Krieg studieren, damit meine Söhne die Freiheit haben, Mathematik und Philosophie zu studieren.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
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Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.
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I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
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I must avow to your majesty (King George III) I have no attachment but to my own country.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right . . . and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics . . . is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office (the vice-presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
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The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratic council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor.
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The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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The liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.