All JOHN ADAMS Quotes about “Abuse”

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!”
“My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.”
“Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.”

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