Famous Quotes / John Adams
46 Quotations by John Adams
- 21. Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, s ...
- 22. Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
- 23. Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implie ...
- 24. No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- 25. Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- 26. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove ...
- 27. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
- 28. Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
- 29. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ...
- 30. Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establis ...
- 31. The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with al ...
- 32. The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
- 33. The happiness of society is the end of government.
- 34. The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are th ...
- 35. The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of ...
- 36. The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a ro ...
- 37. There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- 38. There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living ...
- 39. Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
- 40. Thomas Jefferson -- still surv…