“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress. — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power — John Adams Copy Share Image
The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart — John Adams Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. — 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
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
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but… — John Adams Copy Share Image
By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which… — 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 profit, honor,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams Copy Share Image
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen. — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? — John Adams Copy Share Image
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and… — 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
Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never. — John Adams Copy Share Image
[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will. — John Adams Copy Share Image
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — 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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