“Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.”
— John Adams
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
“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.”
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
“One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.”
“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
“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.”
“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”
“Ideology is the science of idiots.”
“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.”
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
“Those who trade liberty for security have neither.”
“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.”
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
“We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!”
“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.”
“We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people.”
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
“I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.”
“Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.”
“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.”
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.”
“I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.”
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.”
“Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.”
“There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.”
“People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.”
“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
“Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right.”
“Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.”
“It’s of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished.”
“We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.”
“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.”
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
“Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.”
“Power must never be trusted without a check.”
“Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.”
“Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?”
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
“I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.”
“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.”
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