Author: John Adams

Quotes

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

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

- John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

- John Adams

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.

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

A government of laws, and not of men.

A government of laws, and not of men.

- John Adams

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

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

- John Adams

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- John Adams

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

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

- John Adams

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