John Adams Quotes, to Read, Remember and to THINK About:
Plagiarism doesn't have to include copyright infringement. For example, William Shakespeare's plays are not copyrighted because they're too old. Even though it would technically be legal to copy from one of those plays it would still be plagiarism if you didn't give credit to Shakespeare—or if you were to claim OWNERSHIP yourself.
The work must be fixed in tangible form, which means it must be stored on something physical, such as paper, canvas, a CD, or a hard disk. This makes college students copyright owners, since they've already written many original works for school.
The owner of a copyright gets to decide who can legally make copies of that work. It is illegal to copy large sections of someone else's copyrighted work without permission, even if you give the original author credit.
More John Adams Quotes, to Read, Remember and to THINK About:
1. LETTER TO JOHN TAYLOR. CATEGORY: DEMOCRACY, DATE: APRIL 15, 1814: REMEMBER DEMOCRACY NEVER LASTS LONG. IT SOON WASTES, EXHAUSTS, AND MURDERS ITSELF. THERE NEVER WAS A DEMOCRACY YET THAT DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE.
2. Category: Arms, Date, 1787:To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defence, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
3. Category, Education. Date: 1787: Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them a habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
4. The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families . . . . 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 that their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?
5. Category: Family, Date: July 16, 1814: As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.
6. Letter to Abigail Adams Categories: Liberty / Freedom, Date: July 17, 1775: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
7. An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, Categories: Democracy, Date: August 29, 1763: [D]EMOCRACY WILL SOON DEGENERATE INTO AN ANARCHY, SUCH AN ANARCHY THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES AND NO MAN'S LIFE OR PROPERTY OR REPUTATION OR LIBERTY WILL BE SECURE, AND EVERY ONE OF THESE WILL SOON MOULD ITSELF INTO A SYSTEM OF SUBORDINATION OF ALL THE MORAL VIRTUES AND INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES, ALL THE POWERS OF WEALTH, BEAUTY, WIT AND SCIENCE, TO THE WANTON PLEASURES, THE CAPRICIOUS WILL, AND THE EXECRABLE CRUELTY OF ONE OR A VERY FEW.
8. Letter to the young men of the Philadelphia. Categories: History,Date: May 7, 1798: Without wishing to damp the and/or of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.
9. Category, Human Nature, Power; Date: May 23, 1769; Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
10. Letter to Mercy Warren, Category, Rights, Date: April 16, 1776: Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.
11. To the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts; Category: Americans / American Character, Constitution, Religion and Morality, Virtue; Date: October 11, 1798:But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practicing iniquity and extravagance and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The work must be fixed in tangible form, which means it must be stored on something physical, such as paper, canvas, a CD, or a hard disk. This makes college students copyright owners, since they've already written many original works for school.
The owner of a copyright gets to decide who can legally make copies of that work. It is illegal to copy large sections of someone else's copyrighted work without permission, even if you give the original author credit.
More John Adams Quotes, to Read, Remember and to THINK About:
1. LETTER TO JOHN TAYLOR. CATEGORY: DEMOCRACY, DATE: APRIL 15, 1814: REMEMBER DEMOCRACY NEVER LASTS LONG. IT SOON WASTES, EXHAUSTS, AND MURDERS ITSELF. THERE NEVER WAS A DEMOCRACY YET THAT DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE.
2. Category: Arms, Date, 1787:To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defence, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
3. Category, Education. Date: 1787: Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them a habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
4. The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families . . . . 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 that their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?
5. Category: Family, Date: July 16, 1814: As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.
6. Letter to Abigail Adams Categories: Liberty / Freedom, Date: July 17, 1775: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
7. An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, Categories: Democracy, Date: August 29, 1763: [D]EMOCRACY WILL SOON DEGENERATE INTO AN ANARCHY, SUCH AN ANARCHY THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES AND NO MAN'S LIFE OR PROPERTY OR REPUTATION OR LIBERTY WILL BE SECURE, AND EVERY ONE OF THESE WILL SOON MOULD ITSELF INTO A SYSTEM OF SUBORDINATION OF ALL THE MORAL VIRTUES AND INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES, ALL THE POWERS OF WEALTH, BEAUTY, WIT AND SCIENCE, TO THE WANTON PLEASURES, THE CAPRICIOUS WILL, AND THE EXECRABLE CRUELTY OF ONE OR A VERY FEW.
8. Letter to the young men of the Philadelphia. Categories: History,Date: May 7, 1798: Without wishing to damp the and/or of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.
9. Category, Human Nature, Power; Date: May 23, 1769; Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
10. Letter to Mercy Warren, Category, Rights, Date: April 16, 1776: Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.
11. To the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts; Category: Americans / American Character, Constitution, Religion and Morality, Virtue; Date: October 11, 1798:But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practicing iniquity and extravagance and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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