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Quote DB :: Authors :: John Adams :: View Quote View Quote "There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live." - Copy to Clipboard   --  John Adams Listed in: Education, Morality Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.63  Rate Quote 24 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." "We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody!" "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war." Top 5 quotes from Education, Morality "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble." "Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience." "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."

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