All John Adams Quotes
- To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do. All
- Everything in life should be done with reflection. Inspirational
- If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle Affair
- Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good,… Admire
- We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… Ambition
- It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry… Abhorrence
- I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them. Control
- But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe. All
- The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. Anyone
- The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity. Been
- ...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never… Acquire
- This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. All
- [L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have… All
- Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. American Revolution
- There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war. Greater
- We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.… Assembly
- And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as… Among
- There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. Conquer
- When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. Corrupted
- There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor… Abhor