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John Adams Quotes:

Ocupation: 2nd U.S. President

Life: October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826

Birthday: October 30

Death: July 4

In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

- John Adams

source: John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.75, Penguin

topic: Education, Mother, Children

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