I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed… — 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
Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind. — John Adams Copy Share Image
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and… — 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
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind. — 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
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth — John Adams Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — 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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