I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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  Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

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  Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and div

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  I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin,

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• John Adams:

  I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.