"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."

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Source : John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1959). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826”

John Adams

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the top of their list: the Supreme Court, the armed forces, and the Federal Reserve System. All three have one thing in common: they are insulated from the public pressures and operate undemocratically. It would seem that Americans admire these institutions, precisely because they lead rather than follow.”
“Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.”
“Unbelief is a belief.”
“We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.”

Source : "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.
“Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.”
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning-it'll be gone.”
“I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.”
“I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.”

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