john adams Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Adams | 30 October 1735 | 4 July 1826 | American | John Adams | Susanna Boylston | Politician, Lawyer | The first vice president of the United States and the second president. In 1774, he served on the First Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. |
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"Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." - John Adams
"I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read." - John Adams
"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power." - John Adams
"The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice." - 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
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it." - 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
"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
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society." - John Adams
"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
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak." - John Adams
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." - John Adams
"Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices." - John Adams
"Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend." - John Adams
"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." - John Adams
"I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life." - John Adams
"Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy." - John Adams
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write ." - John Adams