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John Adams
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    It was here, Robert, at the very core of this young American nation, that our brightest forefathers—John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine—all warned of the profound dangers of interpreting the Bible literally.  (source)
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    John Adams, who had come to know Reed in Philadelphia, described him as "very sensible,"  (source)
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    John Adams, our second president, said, "Statesmen ...may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand."  (source)
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    To John Adams!  (source)
    John Adams = 2nd President of the United States
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    John Adams once described being in the position as "I am nothing."  (source)
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    Curiously and remarkably, John Adams, the future president, foresaw the role of American English even before he knew that the American Revolution would succeed.  (source)
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    But there was only one Federalist politician whose opinion young John Quincy valued above his own—John Adams.  (source)
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    At the time when John Adams had a little army at Cincinnati, ready to go down and take New Orleans, there were no Western correspondents to the Eastern Press.  (source)
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    —LETTER FROM JOHN ADAMS TO HIS WIFE, ABIGAIL  (source)
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    I am descended from John Adams on my grandmother's side (her maiden name was Bates, and her family came to America on the Mayflower); yet, in our town, it was my grandfather's name that had the clout, and my grandmother wielded her married name with such a sure sense of self-possession that she might as well have been a Wheelwright and an Adams and a Bates.  (source)
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    Attorney James Putnam of Worcester had been John Adams's mentor in the law.  (source)
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    Kennedy, like every president since John Adams became the White House's first resident in 1800, has learned that life inside the White House is complicated.  (source)
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    "I do not disapprove of your conduct in the business of Louisiana," John Adams wrote his son, "though I know it will become a very unpopular subject in the northern states...I think you have been right!"  (source)
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    That virtue and independence were among the highest of mortal attainments, John Adams never doubted.  (source)
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    His father was "the honestest man" John Adams ever knew.  (source)
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    John Adams's powers as sole peacemaker with Britain were revoked.  (source)
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    He was John Adams of Braintree and he loved to talk.  (source)
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    John Adams had been predisposed to like Lee, largely out of admiration for Richard Henry Lee.  (source)
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    JOHN ADAMS WAS NOT UNSYMPATHETIC to the concerns of the Comte de Vergennes and the Foreign Ministry.  (source)
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    It was John Adams, more than anyone, who had made it happen.  (source)
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    At Braintree, Abigail had picked up word that Franklin was "black-ing" the character of John Adams.  (source)
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    Standing beside John Adams, Jefferson looked like a lanky, freckled youth.  (source)
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    No man better merited than Mr. John Adams to hold a most conspicuous place in the design.  (source)
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    It was a crushing moment for Washington and for John Adams.  (source)
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    But at the time Jefferson wrote nothing of the occasion, nor did John Adams.  (source)
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    When he referred to himself as John Adams of Braintree, it was not in a manner of speaking.  (source)
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