"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
― John Adams
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― John Adams
More From John Adams
- "The happiness of society is the end of government."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Power
- "He enjoys much who is thankful for little."― Thomas Secker
- "Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever."― Dee Dee Myers
- "Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife."― Samuel Richardson