Nature Quotes by John Adams

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution…

— John Adams

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven…

— John Adams

I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth

— John Adams

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

— John Adams

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature…

— John Adams

“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of…

— John Adams

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the…

— John Adams

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether…

— 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

I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal…

— John Adams

Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and…

— John Adams

Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an…

— John Adams

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence…

— John Adams

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

— 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

“All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor…

— John Adams

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises…

— John Adams

The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether…

— John Adams

“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of…

— John Adams

The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can…

— John Adams

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature…

— John Adams

The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism,…

— John Adams

Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against…

— 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