Best quotes by John Adams on Freedom

Checkout quotes by John Adams on Freedom

• ‟ Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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• ‟ Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

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• ‟ When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

  - John Adams