John Adams Quotes About Soul
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Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.
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We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
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Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.
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