Aristocratic Quote by Gordon S. Wood

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

— Gordon S. Wood

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept…

— Gordon S. Wood

I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the…

— Gordon S. Wood

Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history…

— Gordon S. Wood

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

— Ben Carson

“Our founders did not believe that our society could thrive without this kind of moral social structure. In fact, it was our second president,…

— Ben Carson

Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams…

— Gordon S. Wood

“[John] Adams saw clearly that politics is the indispensable foundation for things elegant and beautiful. First and above all else, you must secure life,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Of all the Founders, Adams may have been the most churchgoing. But as a Unitarian, he did not believe in the Holy Trinity, the…

— Ed Asner

The Massachusetts constitution was written much later than the other revolutionary state constitutions, and thus it avoids some of the earlier mistakes. The executive…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Again, John Adams understood that the new Constitution simply lacked the powers to control a people who were, by their own lack of virtue,…

— Jack Pelham

“John Adams even appealed the matter to higher spiritual realities when he said, “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is…

— Ben Carson