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→Notable Quotes: Never owned slaves
* "You have [[unalienable rights|rights]] antecedent to all earthly [[government]]s; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the [[God|Great Legislator of the Universe]]."
* "You have [[unalienable rights|rights]] antecedent to all earthly [[government]]s; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the [[God|Great Legislator of the Universe]]."
* "Although I have never sought popularity by any animated speeches or inflammatory publications against the slavery of the blacks, my opinion against it has always been known, and my practice has been so conformable to my sentiments that I have always employed freemen, both as domestics and laborers, and never in my life did I own a slave. The abolition of slavery must be gradual, and accomplished with much caution and circumspection. Violent means and measures would produce greater violations of justice and humanity than the continuance of the practice."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-Wh3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 9], To George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, January 24th, 1801</ref>
==Notes==
==Notes==