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We have a collection of 6 Government quotes from 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." (ID 22939)


"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." (ID 23015)


"The happiness of society is the end of government." (ID 23052)


"A government of laws, and not of men." (ID 23099)


"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago." (ID 23203)


"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries." (ID 23276)


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