All John Adams Quotes
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination… All
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. According
- I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin… Accepted
- When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now… Cannot Choose
- The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. Consists
- Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Liberty
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four… Advanced
- Genius is sorrow's child. Child
- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. Conceived
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of… Cost
- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions… Admired
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory… All
- As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene,… Admiration
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I… Bewitch
- You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player! Advantage
- When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one. Better
- But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has… All
- Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. Anti Religious
- They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves. Acknowledge
- Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. Dare