My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams · The source reads: “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office [the vice-presidency] that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.” · Of the vice-presidency

Is there no way for two friendly souls to converse together, although the bodies are 400 miles off? Yes, by letter. I want to hear you think, or to see your thoughts.

John Adams · The source reads: “Is there no Way for two friendly Souls, to converse together, altho the Bodies are 400 Miles off? Yes by Letter. ... I want to hear you think, or to see your Thoughts. (a sentence stands between)” · John Adams writing to Abigail from Philadelphia during the Continental Congress, April 28, 1776.

Power always thinks it has a great Soul, and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the Weak; and that it is doing God Service, when it is violating all his Laws.

John Adams · Discourses on Davila, Letter to Thomas Jefferson [February 2, 1816]

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 · Discourses on Davila, Letter to John Taylor [April 15, 1814]

I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.

Margaret Chase Smith · The source reads: “The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.” · Declaration of Conscience, U.S. Senate (June 1, 1950)

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

“My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

“Is there no way for two friendly souls to converse together, although the bodies are 400 miles off? Yes, by letter. I want to hear you think, or to see your thoughts.”

“Power always thinks it has a great Soul, and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the Weak; and that it is doing God Service, when it is violating all his Laws.”

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

“I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

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