The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more
importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the
country. -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President "Dissertation on the
Canon and the Feudal Law" (1765)
importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the
country. -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President "Dissertation on the
Canon and the Feudal Law" (1765)
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- The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out
of their church
and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.... - The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is
not true.
They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all... - 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 (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter written when he was VP.... - All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death
than the animals that know nothing.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck... - The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
- The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people... - Example is a living law, whose sway Men more than all the written laws obey. -- Sedley
- All men profess honesty as long as they can.
To believe all men honest would be folly.
To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adam... - Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
