John Adams quotes Born: 10/30/1735 Died: 07/04/1826 Country: usa

• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. (John Adams) [remember/democracy/democracy/suicide]
• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. (John Adams) [imagination/charm/wonder]
• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. (John Adams) [desire]
• There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. (John Adams) [teach]
• Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. (John Adams) [power/choice/power]
• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. (John Adams) [/question/america/willpower]
• Fear is the foundation of most government. (John Adams) [fear/government]
• Thomas Jefferson -- still surv (John Adams)
• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. (John Adams) [facts/state/facts]
• When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. (John Adams) [people/thinking/thing/thing]
• Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (John Adams) [people/government]
• Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. (John Adams) [power]
• Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. (John Adams) [knowledge/people]
• In politics the middle way is none at all. (John Adams) [politics]
• The happiness of society is the end of government. (John Adams) [happiness/society/start/government]
• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. (John Adams) [exercise/wish/order]
• Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. (John Adams) [think/think/posterity]
• The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. (John Adams) [revolution/war/revolution/people]
• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? (John Adams) [service/mankind]
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (John Adams) [politics/war/philosophy]
• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. (John Adams) [america/wonder/design/emancipation]
• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children (John Adams) [love]
• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. (John Adams) [abuse/words/society]
• Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. (John Adams)
• A government of laws, and not of men. (John Adams)
• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. (John Adams)
• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. (John Adams)
• Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. (John Adams)
• Fear is the foundation of most governments. (John Adams)
• Genius is sorrow's child. (John Adams)
• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. (John Adams)

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