John Adams Quotes & John Adams Sayings

Thomas Jefferson - still surv… John Adams Quotations Thomas Jefferson still survives. John Adams Quotations A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building John Adams A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. John Adams Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society John Adams Adages Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams Always stand on principle even if you stand alone. John Adams America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs John Adams Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages John Adams Quotes Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air. John Adams Adages Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. John Adams Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence John Adams Quotations Fear is The Foundation of most governments. John Adams Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart John Adams Sayings Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart. John Adams Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year. John Adams Adages Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue John Adams Remarks He's asked to remain silent, John Adams Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. John Adams Hey, they?re a veteran team with four seniors. John Adams Adages I agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all. John Adams I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure John Adams I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than the means. John Adams Quotes I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth John Adams I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. John Adams I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams Sayings I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geograhy, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams Quotes I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams Quotations I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams Remarks I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame John Adams Remarks If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve? John Adams Quotations In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level John Adams It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power John Adams It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. John Adams Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. John Adams Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams Quotes Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. John Adams Quotations Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived John Adams Quotations Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. John Adams Quotations Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and power, created, and preserves for a time innumerable millions, to make them miserable forever, for his own glory? Wretch! What is his glory? Is he John Adams Adages Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams Quotations Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. John Adams Politics are the divine science, after all John Adams Quotations Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost John Adams Quotations Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. John Adams Sayings The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family. John Adams The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. John Adams The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natur John Adams Sayings The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion John Adams Sayings The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing John Adams Quotes The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. John Adams Sayings The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence John Adams Quotes The most important gap is that a whole host of disorders, called blood disorders, have been forgotten and omitted. John Adams The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country John Adams Quotations The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. John Adams Quotations The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of the rich men in the country. John Adams The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles. John Adams The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion John Adams Remarks The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice John Adams Quotations There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. John Adams There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. John Adams There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live. John Adams Adages There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams Sayings There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God John Adams Remarks These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion John Adams Popular Quotes This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it John Adams Quotations Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. John Adams Remarks 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 and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody! John Adams What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another p John Adams Quotations When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones John Adams Popular Quotes Where annual elections end, there slavery begins. John Adams Popular Quotes While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. John Adams You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate. John Adams Adages