Historical Quote by John Adams

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

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a…

— 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

[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the…

— Gordon S. Wood

“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

“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

“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

[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what…

— Gordon S. Wood

“I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes…

— Benjamin Franklin

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

— Anonymous

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities,…

— Gordon S. Wood