1797 · Skopia

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Speech · Political speech

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

Inaugural Address of John Adams · 1797

★ 3.8

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

1797

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

Inaugural Address of John Adams · 1797

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?

Inaugural Address of John Adams · 1797

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Irritated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested.

Inaugural Address of John Adams · 1797

★ 2.0

Oh, London is a fine town, A very famous city, Where all the streets are paved with gold, And all the maidens pretty.

George Colman the Younger

1797

★ 1.9

I do really take it for an indisputable truth, and a truth that is one of the corner stones of political science—the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave.

1797

★ 1.9