"It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people."

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Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

Gordon S. Wood

#People Quotes #Massachusetts Quotes #Constitution Quotes

“The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.”
“Hillary Clinton at the end of the day will be a friend of Wall Street.”
“That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.”
“Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.”

Source : British Academy of Film and Television Arts website, December 2009.
“The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.”
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
“I love listening to classical music.”

Source : "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2010.
“From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.”

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