All John Adams Quotes
- The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the… All
- A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building Building
- I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth Cannot Conceive
- Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart Drives
- Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane… Almighty
- The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force… Admitted
- I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame Affairs
- There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Educations
- The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings… Anti Religious
- ' I pray heaven bestow the best of blessings on this house, and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and… Adams
- I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a… Among
- Where annual elections end, there slavery begins Annual
- It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man Admit
- If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should… Advantages
- That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the… Demonstrated
- Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of… Aimed
- The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation Idol
- The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the… Character
- Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or… Breach
- Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. Brute
- Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis… Cardinal
- Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics Cannot Exist
- It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power Men
- The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Absurdity
- Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1500 years. Anti Religious