Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself. — John Adams Copy Share Image
We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams Copy Share Image
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
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