John Adams Quotes

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

May, Cannot, Whatever

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Government, Made, Moral

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

Long, Democracy, Remember

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

Nature, Ignorance, America

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

God, Power, Service

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

War, Politics, May

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

Long, Democracy, Remember

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

Trust, Men, Power

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

Men, Done, Nation

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

Happiness, Government, Society

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Power, Society, Character

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams

Knowledge, Speak, Write

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

Great, Society, Words

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams

Fear, Foundation

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

Great, Power, Soul

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

Freedom, Knowledge, Liberty

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

Politics, Middle, None

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

Hope, Freedom, Writing

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

Age, Working, Wish

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

Design, America, Earth

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

Mind, Children, May

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

Law, Support, Laws

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

Nation, Necessity, Tyrant

A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams

Men, Government, Laws

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams

Great, War, Guilt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 30, 1735

Died: July 4, 1826

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