The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people — John Adams Copy Share Image
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every… — 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
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to… — 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
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied… — 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
Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they… — John Adams Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and… — 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
The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The… — 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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