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John Lawrence Adams, , (born May 31, 1942) was the Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada and Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence from July 2005 to January 2012. He was succeeded by John Forster. Adams graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada, earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree in chemical engineering in 1965. Adams is also a Rhodes Scholar after graduating, in 1967, with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University, in England, in 1967. He also graduated from the Army Staff College as well as the National Defence College. Adams joined the Canadian Forces in 1967 and served until 1993. He took on many roles, from command of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment in Chilliwack, British Columbia (CFB Chilliwack) to posts at National Defence Headquarters. He retired with the rank of Major-General. After his retirement from the Canadian Forces, Adams was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Infrastructure and Environment, for National Defence. He left that post in 1998. From 2003 to June 2005, as Associate Deputy Minister and Commissioner of the Canadian Coast Guard, and from 1998 to 2003 as Assistant Deputy Minister, Marine Services and Commissioner, Canadian Coast Guard for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. In 1992, he was made a Commander of the Order of Military Merit. He is a recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (1977), the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal (1992), the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002). and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). References

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“No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.”
— Diary entry (19 February 1756)
“Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your Freedom! — I hope you will make a good use of it. — if you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it. —”
— Letter to Abigail Adams (27 April 1777), published as Letter CXI in Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife (1841) edited by Charles Francis Adams, p. 218
“The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.”
— This is attributed to Adams in The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) by Henry Stephens Randall, p. 587
“I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.”
— Autobiography (1802–1807)
“All projects of government, formed upon a supposition of continual vigilance, sagacity, and virtue, firmness of the people, when possessed of the exercise of supreme power, are cheats and delusions.”
— Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, vol. III, p. 412; also quoted in Works of John Adams, vol. VI, p. 166.
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
— As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset: From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431

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“No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.”
— Diary entry (19 February 1756)
“Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your Freedom! — I hope you will make a good use of it. — if you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it. —”
— Letter to Abigail Adams (27 April 1777), published as Letter CXI in Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife (1841) edited by Charles Francis Adams, p. 218
“The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.”
— This is attributed to Adams in The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) by Henry Stephens Randall, p. 587
“I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.”
— Autobiography (1802–1807)
“All projects of government, formed upon a supposition of continual vigilance, sagacity, and virtue, firmness of the people, when possessed of the exercise of supreme power, are cheats and delusions.”
— Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, vol. III, p. 412; also quoted in Works of John Adams, vol. VI, p. 166.
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
— As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset: From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431

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