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clipped from www.brainyquote.com Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. John Adams Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. John Adams 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. John Adams