"The longer I live, the more I read,……" — John Adams
"The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough."
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128 Quotes by John Adams
John Adams has 128 quotes on this site.
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man…
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His…
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... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their…
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Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is…
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I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must…
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Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the…
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They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into…
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The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit…
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment…
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And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to…
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past…
— Charles Macomb Flandrau
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While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree…
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I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the…
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