Quote #93
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
More from John Adams
- God is an essence we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is gotten rid of there will never be any liberal science in the world.
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- Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
- Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.
- Genius is sorrow's child.
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- As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity …