All 9 Uses of
maxim
in
John Adams by McCullough
- We have been afraid to think…… Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write…… Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments …. that many of our rights are inherent and essential, agreed on as maxims and established as preliminaries, even before Parliament existed…… Let us read and recollect and impress upon our souls the views and ends of our more immediate forefathers, in exchanging their native country for a dreary, inhospitable wilderness………†
Subsection 1.1.2
- The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.†
Subsection 1.1.2 *
- ") Adams, in his earlier notes for an oration at Braintree, had written, "Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike…… The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man [kings included] to endanger public liberty."†
Subsection 1.2.3
- It is now become a maxim with some, who are even men of merit, that the world esteems a man in proportion as he esteems himself…… I amoften astonished at the boldness with which persons make their pretensions.†
Subsection 2.4.3
- This I believe is a just maxim in general.†
Subsection 2.5.2
- Will my countrymen justify the maxim of tyrants, that mankind is not made for freedom?†
Subsection 2.7.3
- His first maxim then should be to place his honor out of reach of all men.†
Subsection 3.8.2
- "My fundamental maxim of government is neverto trust the lamb to the wolf," and in France, he feared, the wolf was now the majority.†
Subsection 3.8.3
- For as I like a young man in whom there is something of the old [ran a famous passage], so I like an old man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.†
Subsection 3.12.3
Definition:
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(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle