John Adam Quotes · Page 2

“In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. “Aaron Pomham…

— Charles C. Mann

“Lamentations about the tribulations of public life, followed by celebrations of the bucolic splendor of retirement to rural solitude, had become a…

— Joseph J. Ellis

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are…

— Beck

That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.…

— Alexander Hamilton

[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal…

— Gordon S. Wood

“We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done…

— Thomas Jefferson

The town of Braintree, MA was the birthplace of the 2nd and 6th Presidents, John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams.…

— Bryan Johnson

“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or…

— Sherman Edwards

Hanks is a good man, and he produced the "John Adams" series as well. He does good work. But I'm more worried…

— Bill O'Reilly

“From the Deist’s perspective, truth is not indoctrination by either science or religion; truth is eloquently expressed through Nature, the true, rational…

— Beth Houston

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him…

— Gordon S. Wood

John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George…

— Joe Lieberman

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

— Rosanne Cash

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day,…

— Harry S. Truman

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that…

— Charles Koch

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have…

— Pete Seeger

When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas…

— Nat Hentoff

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

— George Washington

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

— Abigail Adams

“In a letter to soldiers in 1798, John Adams, a Founding Father and practicing Unitarian, remarked: We had no government armed with…

— Rod Dreher

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts,…

— Gordon S. Wood

“The chevalier’s multiple talents were well summed up by John Adams, visiting Paris in 1779: The “mulatto man,” wrote the future American…

— Tom Reiss

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has…

— Gordon S. Wood

Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether…

— John Adams

“Elected fifth president of the United States, Monroe transformed a fragile little nation - "a savage wilderness," as Edmund Burke put it…

— Harlow Giles Unger