"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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Selected Quotes of John Adams
"Adams, irreverent to the end, declared that, if it could ever be demonstrated conclusively that no future state existed (no afterlife), his advice to every man, woman, and child was to “take opium.”
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