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
Select John Adams Quotations
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
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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
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
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams
All John Adams Quotations
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Admiration,
Birds,
Children,
Converse,
Domestic,
Heroes,
Little,
Long,
Love,
Much,
Rural,
Sages,
Scene,
Very
Definitions
Admiration,
Children,
Converse,
Domestic,
Heroes,
Little,
Long,
Love,
Much,
Rural,
Scene,
Very
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