John Adams Quotes

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

Power, Thought, Liberty

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
John Adams

Politics, Woman, Write

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams

Government, Control, Free

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

Heart, Desire, Beloved

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

Government, While, Three

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
John Adams

Real, Liberty, Mankind

Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams

Child, Genius, Sorrow

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Country, Office, Invention

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

Simple, Here, Ignorant

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, Children, Long

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

Away, Show, Stage

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 30, 1735

Died: July 4, 1826

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