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Quote DB :: Authors :: John Adams :: View Quote View Quote "We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody!" - Copy to Clipboard   --  John Adams Listed in: War & Peace Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.73  Rate Quote 26 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from John Adams "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." "You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate." "There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live." "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war." Top 5 quotes from War & Peace "Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago." "Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." "A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." "If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!" "It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families."

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