John Adams Quotes

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.

John Adams

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• Power
• Freedom

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• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Television

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Smile
  • Nervous
  • Friendliness

• I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Find
  • Army
  • Darkness

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • End
  • Fight
  • Development

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Humanity

• I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

  

  Nate Parker
  • God
  • Believe
  • Change

• One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Running

• I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Country
  • Power
  • America

• Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Care

• I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • Important
  • Political

• 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.

  

  John Adams
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Power