John Adams
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
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"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
"بما أن السلطة مفسدة، فإن مطالبات المجتمع بالسلطة الأخلاقية والنزاهة تزداد كلما عظمت أهمية المنصب."
John Adams
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
"تظن السلطة دائمًا أنها تؤدي خدمة لله، بينما هي تنتهك جميع شرائعه."
John Adams
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
"إعلان الاستقلال، لطالما اعتبرته مجرد مسرحية. لقد استأثر جيفرسون بكل بهائها ووهجها، واستحوذ على كل مجدها."
John Adams
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
"غاية الحكم سعادة المجتمع."
John Adams
"Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
"العقول الكهلة كالجياد العتيقة، لا بد من ترويضها إن أردت لها أن تظل قادرة على العطاء."
John Adams
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
"إن كل ما يعتري أمريكا من حيرة واضطراب وضيق، لا ينبع من عيوب في دستورها أو اتحادها، ولا من نقص في الشرف أو الفضيلة، بقدر ما هو نابع من الجهل المطبق بطبيعة العملة والائتمان والتداول."
John Adams
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
"أنا مضطر لدراسة السياسة والحرب، لكي ينعم أبنائي بحرية دراسة الرياضيات والفلسفة."
John Adams
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
"عظيمٌ إثمُ الحربِ التي لا داعيَ لها."
John Adams
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
"حين يتحدث الناس عن حرية الكتابة أو القول أو الفكر، لا أملك إلا أن أضحك. لم يكن لمثل هذا وجود قط. ولا وجود له الآن؛ لكني آمل أن يتحقق. بيد أن ذلك لن يكون إلا بعد قرون طويلة، حين نكون أنا وأنت قد كففنا عن الكتابة والحديث."
John Adams
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it."
"أيها الأجيال القادمة! لن تدركوا أبدًا كم كلّف الجيل الحاضر الحفاظ على حريتكم! آمل أن تحسنوا استغلالها."
John Adams
"The four most miserable years of my life . . ."
John Adams
"Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year."
John Adams
"player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually."
John Adams
"Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."
John Adams
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy geography natural history and naval architecture navigation commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting poetry music architecture statuary tapestry and porcelain."
John Adams
"If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor."
John Adams
"Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities."
John Adams
"In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything."
John Adams
"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."
John Adams
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
"Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."
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