Petrus, Päpste, Präsidenten
Von Petrus bis Franziskus, von George Washington bis Donald Trump - Päpste und Präsidenten aus zwei Jahrtausenden
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John Adams
You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.
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John Adams
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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John Adams
The happiness of society is the end of government.
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John Adams
I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.
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John Adams
A government of laws, and not of men.
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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.
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John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right . . . and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
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John Adams
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
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John Adams
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
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John Adams
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.
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John Adams
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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John Adams
I must avow to your majesty (King George III) I have no attachment but to my own country.
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John Adams
Das Wesen einer freien Regierung besteht in einer wirksamen Kontrolle der Rivalitäten.
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John Adams
They (New Yorkers) talk very loud, very fast, and all together.
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John Adams
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.
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John Adams
The liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state.
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John Adams
Virtue is not always amiable.
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John Adams
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
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John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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John Adams
Ich muß Politik und Krieg studieren, damit meine Söhne die Freiheit haben, Mathematik und Philosophie zu studieren.
