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(1735 - 1826)
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| Democracy | Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. - (US President #2) | |
| Liberty | A Constitution of Government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - (2nd US President) | |
| Politics | In politics the middle way is none at all. | |
| Politics | 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; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. - (2nd U.S. President) | |
| U.S. presidency | No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. - (2nd U.S. president) | |
| Useless | In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. | |
| Virtue | Virtue is not always amiable. - (second President) |
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