Quote #9
I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.
More from John Adams
- A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
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- You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
- A government of laws, and not of men.
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- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
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