copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: claims that author Herman Melville once stated, "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-01)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Quote by Herman Melville [...] This quote emphasizes the interconnectedness of human beings and the ripple effects of our actions. It suggests that our lives are not isolated or self-contained, but intertwined with the lives of others. The "fibers" symbolize the invisible ties that bind us together, and our actions are portrayed as threads running through these connections. It reminds us that our choices and behaviors can have consequences that reverberate throughout society, ultimately returning to impact our own lives. In essence, the quote underscores the importance of considering the collective well-being and the potential consequences of our actions.
Claim: claims that author Herman Melville once stated, "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-01)
Evidence (2011-09-07): Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. [...] Brainy Quote"We cannot live only for ourselves. Quotations Page"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."Garrison KeillorNYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg [...] EXAMPLE—Evil Influence of.Be vicious, and viciousness may go down as an heirloom in half a hundred families; be inconsistent, and enmity to the Gospel may be propagated over a parish; give occasions of offence, and many may full; those who are entering in the narrow way may be discouraged, and those who have already entered may be made to stumble. Ye live not for yourselves; ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
Claim: claims that author Herman Melville once stated, "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-01)
Evidence (2023-09-22): I suspect the great writer Herman Melville, author of the timeless novel Moby Dick, said it best:
Claim: claims that author Herman Melville once stated, "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-01)
Evidence (2019-10-23): FACT CHECK: Did Herman Melville Say, ‘A Thousand Fibers Connect Us With Our Fellow Men’? An image shared on Facebook claims author Herman Melville once said, "We cannot live only for ourselves. [...] The expression actually originates with Melvill, an Anglican preacher of no relation to Melville, according to Norsworthy. In an 1855 sermon, Melvill said, "Ye live not for yourselves; ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects."
Claim: claims that author Herman Melville once stated, "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-01)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Start by following Herman Melville. [...] ― Pierre; or, The Ambiguities ― Pierre; or, The Ambiguities "We cannot live only for ourselves.
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2019-06-21): There is no evidence that Adams ever made this statement. It was said, however, by the fictional Adams in the 1969 musical “1776.”
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2019-08-23): A Facebook post claims that founding father John Adams said, "If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?" There is no evidence that Adams authored this saying. It was actually a penned by his wife Abigail Adams in a 1778 letter. [...] Though he spoke and wrote widely on a variety of subjects, Adams did not author the quote attributed to him in the Facebook post. A search of his writings turned up no similar or matching phrases. (RELATED: Did John Adams Say, ‘One Useless Man Is A Shame, Two Is A Law Firm And Three Or More Is A Congress’?)
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2019-07-29): John Adams (1735 1826) was a Founding Father, political philosopher and second president of the US (1797-1801). Adams was also a lawyer who advocated the right to counsel and presumption of innocence. He was one of the more conservative Founding Fathers but swung behind the cause of the American Revolution and helped to champion the Declaration of Independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson at the Continental Congress. He was also the first vice-president of the US (1789-1797) and foreign diplomat to the UK and Netherlands. John Adams was born on 30 October 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts. His grandfather emigrated from England around 1638. His father was a deacon on the Congregational Church and a lieutenant in the local militia. His family were of the puritan religious tradition, and he was brought up with emphasis on morality, restraint and frugality. Until he became President, he refused to work on the Sabbath. After a basic education, he entered Harvard College in 1751, where he became immersed in the classics. To his father’s disappointment, Adams chose to pursue a career in the law, rather than train to be a deacon. He felt lawyers had the opportunity to make a real difference and gain the respect of his fellow men. [...] – John Adams Letter to Robert J. Evans (1819)
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2024-08-23): John Adams (1735-1826) was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who was a prominent leader of the American Revolution (1765-1789) before going on to serve as the first vice president (1789-1797) and second president of the United States (1797-1801). He is considered a Founding Father of the United States, having helped lead the push for independence. John Adams was born on 30 October 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, John Adams Sr., was a farmer, shoemaker, church deacon, and selectman for the town of Braintree, who was well-liked in his 2,000-person community. The younger John greatly admired his father, later writing of him that "in wisdom, piety, benevolence, and charity…I have never known his superior" (McCullough, 33). John's mother, Susanna Boylston Adams, came from one of the most prominent medical families in New England; her uncle Zabdiel Boylston was the first American physician to perform smallpox inoculations. John had two younger brothers, Peter and Elihu, and spent his childhood "making and sailing boats…swimming, skating, flying kites and shooting marbles…running about to quiltings and frolics and dances among boys and girls". As Adams would later recall, his childhood "went off like a fairytale" (McCullough, 31).
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2024-08-20): - Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University - John Adams - American Battlefield Trust - Biography of John Adams - The American Presidency Project - John Adams - PBS - American Experience - John Adams - White House Historical Association - John Adams - Mass.gov - John Adams, Architect of American Government - National Park Service - Biography of John Adams - Miller Center - John Adams - The White House - Biography of John Adams [...] John Adams (born October 30 [October 19, Old Style], 1735, Braintree [now in Quincy], Massachusetts [U.S.]—died July 4, 1826, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.) was an early advocate of American independence from Great Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachusetts constitution (1780), a signer of the Treaty of Paris (1783), the first American ambassador to the Court of St. James (1785–88), and the first vice president (1789–97) and second president (1797–1801) of the United States. Although Adams was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most significant statesmen of the revolutionary era, his reputation faded in the 19th century, only to ascend again during the last half of the 20th century. The modern edition of his correspondence prompted a rediscovery of his bracing honesty and pungent way with words, his importance as a political thinker, his realistic perspective on American foreign policy, and his patriarchal role as founder of one of the most prominent families in American history.
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2013-09-17): John Adams (1794). "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778", p.385
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
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Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2018-08-02): Even in life, Adams worried about his place in American history. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson written in 1815, after both of their presidencies had ended, Adams wrote: [...] A few years later, the question of Adams’ place in American memory continued to gnaw at him. On top of being forgotten, Adams worried that he would be misremembered. He lamented, "Mausoleums, Statues, Monuments will never be erected to me. I wish them not——Panegyrical Romances, will never be written, nor flattering Orations pronounced to transmit my Character to Posterity in glorious Colours. No nor in true Colours neither." [...] One of the only founding fathers who did not own slaves, Adams participated in the Continental Congress, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, served as the nation’s first vice president, and as the nation’s second president. He was a determined advocate for the Declaration of Independence, passionately defending it while the quieter Jefferson preferred to listen and watch. Although his maneuvering to avoid war with France during his one-term in office made him unpopular–and his infamous Alien & Sedition Acts even more so–Adams once grumbled:
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2020-04-11): One Thing John Adams Had More of Than Any Other Founding Father [...] John Adams was notoriously difficult to be around. William Grimes wrote for the New York Times that "if you could bend time and space to hang out with the Founding Fathers, here's a tip: steer clear of John Adams." [...] Adams once wrote to his wife: "I have no confidence in any Man who is not exact in his morals." Exact in this morals is exactly who John Adams always was, no matter the outcome. It is one of the reasons McCullough defines Adams as "one of the most important Americans who ever lived."
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2023-02-02): In July 2022, readers asked us to look into the veracity of quotes that appeared in a meme titled, "Damn Those Pesky Facts." The meme had been shared on Facebook and displayed several quotes about Christianity and religion that purportedly came from four men, three who were Founding Fathers. The names shown above the remarks included former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison, as well as author Thomas Paine. [...] The second Adams' quote in the "Damn Those Pesky Facts" meme read, "The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan nation." We found that this quote has also been attributed to former U.S. President George Washington, not Adams. This felt a bit like a red flag to us that perhaps the quote did not really come from Adams, or maybe either of the men at all. [...] We reached out to the team with Washington's estate at MountVernon.org to see if they had resources that could help establish if Washington truly said or wrote these words, as it appeared it did not come from Adams. In response, one of its staff told us that it appeared to be a "poorly paraphrased and modified text" from the same Treaty of Peace and Friendship from 1796 that was mentioned in the previous quote. (Separately, they pointed us to a different quote from 1790 that is believed to perhaps be Washington's most important remarks regarding freedom of religion and "religious tolerance.")
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2019-10-29): An image shared on Facebook claims that founding father John Adams once said, "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt." There is no evidence Adams said or wrote the statement. [...] Sara Martin, the editor-in-chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, told the Caller in an email, "While the sentiment of this quotation is in keeping with John Adams, we have found no direct evidence that Adams ever wrote it."
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2024-02-22): claims John Adams said a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2009-12-28): John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a politician, Founding Father, 1st Vice President (1789–1797) and 2nd President of the United States (1797–1801). [...] - Simple: I see America as a place with only ignorance and slavery - "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."[3] - Simple: One man is a shame, two become lawyers, and three become a parliament.
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2023-10-27): John Adams — Famous Quotes [...] — John Adams, letter to William Tudor Sr., recalling the speech given by James Otis in the Paxton Case, against the Writs of Assistance, March 19, 1817. [...] John Adams — More Quotes from the Founding Father
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-09): John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War and in the early years of the new nation, he served the U.S. government as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first person to hold the office of vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with important contemporaries, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams and his friend and political rival Thomas Jefferson. [...] Many attacks on Adams were scurrilous, including suggestions that he was planning to "crown himself king" and "grooming John Quincy as heir to the throne."[331] The allegations were totally false, he told Jefferson—he never wanted an American monarchy.[334] Adams felt that the great danger was that an oligarchy of the wealthy would take hold to the detriment of equality. To counter that danger, the power of the wealthy needed to be channeled by institutions, and checked by a strong executive.[335][321]
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2024-07-03): John Adams was practically a misanthrope If you could bend time and space to hang out with the Founding Fathers, here’s a tip: Steer clear of John Adams. Few people ever met the exacting standards of this persnickety revolutionary. Even the revered Washington fell short; Adams once sniped in his diary that Washington "is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his status and reputation."
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2018-01-01): John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1735. He proposed to Abigail Smith in 1762 and they married two years later. The couple had six children. [...] Receiving seventy-one electoral votes, only three more votes than his opponent, Adams won the election and assumed the presidency at the age of 61.
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2024-10-09): I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress! For ten years, King George and his Parliament have gulled, cullied, and diddled these colonies with their illegal taxes! Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Acts, Tea Acts! And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns, and spilled our BLOOD! And still, this Congress refuses to grant ANY of my proposals on independence, even so much as the courtesty of open debate! Good God, what in hell are you waiting for? Find a translation for this quote in other languages:
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2019-06-25): FACT CHECK: Did John Adams Say, ‘One Useless Man Is A Shame, Two Is A Law Firm And Three Or More Is A Congress’? [...] The saying attributed to Adams is one such misquotation. The Daily Caller News Foundation found no evidence that he ever said or wrote these words. A search of the digital edition of The Adams Papers returned no matches. [...] I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm; and that three or more become a Congress! And, by God, I have had this Congress! For 10 years, King George and his Parliament have gulled, cullied and diddled these Colonies with their illegal taxes! Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Acts, Tea Acts! And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns and spilled our blood! And still this Congress refuses to grant any of my proposals on independence, even so much as the courtesy of open debate! Good God, what in Hell are you waiting for?
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2019-12-20): March 3, 1797, Library of Congress. [...] Congress, speaking for the Nation. [...] The House Judiciary Committee reached this conclusion in
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2013-03-31): John Adams (1735-1826)
Claim: Claims that founding father John Adams once said, "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-21)
Evidence (2012-08-10): * ''My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers." —Jimmy Carter * "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" —Teddy Roosevelt * ''In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.'' —John Adams * "Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." —Bill Clinton * "If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?" —Abraham Lincoln