John Adams

Quotes

• “...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will b...”
• “Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will...”
• “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its lea...”
• “There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor...”
• “We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear an...”
• “Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if w...”
• “Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy,...”
• “Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a ...”
• “When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge for myself, but how c...”
• “Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and no...”
• “Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the ...”
• “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot...”
• “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that...”
• “Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Ter...”
• “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
• “He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.”
• “Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.”
• “The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.”
• “...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.”