Revolution Quotes by John Adams

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

— John Adams

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

— John Adams

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

— John Adams

This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!

— John Adams

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

— John Adams

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of…

— John Adams

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular;…

— 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

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof…

— John Adams

Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,…

— John Adams

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied…

— John Adams

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are…

— John Adams

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,…

— John Adams

“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has…

— John Adams

[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

As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The…

— John Adams

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war…

— John Adams

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied…

— John Adams

I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a…

— John Adams

The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were…

— 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

The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will…

— John Adams

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and…

— John Adams