John Adams Quotes

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John Adams Quote: “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.”

John Adams Quote: “Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”

John Adams Quote: “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

John Adams Quote: “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 Quote: “One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.”

John Adams Quote: “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”

John Adams Quote: “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”

John Adams Quote: “I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.”

John Adams Quote: “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

John Adams Quote: “Ideology is the science of idiots.”

John Adams Quote: “Those who trade liberty for security have neither.”

John Adams Quote: “Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”

John Adams Quote: “Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”

John Adams Quote: “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.”

John Adams Quote: “The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.”

John Adams Quote: “The happiness of society is the end of government.”

John Adams Quote: “To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”

John Adams Quote: “Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right.”

John Adams Quote: “We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people.”

John Adams Quote: “I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.”

John Adams Quote: “It’s of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished.”

John Adams Quote: “Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.”

John Adams Quote: “We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!”

John Adams Quote: “Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.”

John Adams Quote: “I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.”

John Adams Quote: “Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.”

John Adams Quote: “Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

John Adams Quote: “Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.”

John Adams Quote: “Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.”

John Adams Quote: “I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.”

John Adams Quote: “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.”

John Adams Quote: “Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.”

John Adams Quote: “There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.”

John Adams Quote: “We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”

John Adams Quote: “People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.”

John Adams Quote: “I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.”

John Adams Quote: “We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.”

John Adams Quote: “But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.”

John Adams Quote: “Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”

John Adams Quote: “When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form.”

John Adams Quote: “If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”

John Adams Quote: “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 Quote: “The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.”

John Adams Quote: “There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.”

John Adams Quote: “Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.”

John Adams Quote: “Power must never be trusted without a check.”

John Adams Quote: “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

John Adams Quote: “Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?”

John Adams Quote: “Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?”

John Adams Quote: “Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.”

John Adams Quote: “There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. “For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it.” For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.”

John Adams Quote: “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

John Adams Quote: “I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.”

John Adams Quote: “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 Quote: “The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.”

John Adams Quote: “I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”

John Adams Quote: “A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and to inflame his ambition.”

John Adams Quote: “Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.”

John Adams Quote: “I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.”

John Adams Quote: “I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.”

John Adams Quote: “Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.”

John Adams Quote: “I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.”

John Adams Quote: “It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.”

John Adams Quote: “It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.”

John Adams Quote: “All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.”

John Adams Quote: “The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.”

John Adams Quote: “The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.”

John Adams Quote: “The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.”

John Adams Quote: “When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.”

John Adams Quote: “The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.”

John Adams Quote: “Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”

John Adams Quote: “The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.”

John Adams Quote: “In days of yore, the poet’s pen From wing of bird was plunder’d, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove’s own eagle sunder’d. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet’s numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.”

John Adams Quote: “Let frugality and industry be our virtues.”

John Adams Quote: “In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.”

John Adams Quote: “Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.”

John Adams Quote: “As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.”

John Adams Quote: “The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.”

John Adams Quote: “The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.”

John Adams Quote: “My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!”

John Adams Quote: “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 Quote: “As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.”

John Adams Quote: “You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.”

John Adams Quote: “I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.”

John Adams Quote: “My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed “a step toward darkness,” cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.”

John Adams Quote: “If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle.”

John Adams Quote: “You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!”

John Adams Quote: “God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.”

John Adams Quote: “Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.”

John Adams Quote: “When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.”

John Adams Quote: “During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.”

John Adams Quote: “As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.”

John Adams Quote: “The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.”

John Adams Quote: “If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?”

John Adams Quote: “The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

John Adams Quote: “Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.”

John Adams Quote: “Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?”

John Adams Quote: “If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence...”

John Adams Quote: “That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.”

John Adams Quote: “Politics are the divine science, after all.”

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