America Quotes by John Adams

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

— John Adams

“Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”

— John Adams

The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.

— John Adams

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

— John Adams

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of…

— John Adams

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

— John Adams

“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided…

— John Adams

America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and…

— John Adams

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…

— John Adams

What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even…

— John Adams

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,…

— John Adams

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth…

— John Adams

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The…

— John Adams

It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three…

— John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither…

— John Adams

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be…

— John Adams

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan…

— John Adams

It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this…

— John Adams

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .…

— John Adams

The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection…

— John Adams

If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.…

— John Adams

“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more…

— John Adams

“We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of…

— John Adams