I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams
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  1. A government of laws, and not of men

  2. A government of laws, and not of men.

  3. In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

  4. Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities.

  5. If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

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