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

• 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)
• I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. (John Adams)
• I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. (John Adams)
• Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. (John Adams)
• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. (John Adams)
• My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. (John Adams)
• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order (John Adams)
• Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. (John Adams)
• Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. (John Adams)
• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. (John Adams)
• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. (John Adams)
• The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. (John Adams)
• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. (John Adams)
• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. (John Adams)
• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. (John Adams)
• While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. (John Adams)

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