Author: John Adams

Quotes

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

- 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

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

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

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

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

- John Adams

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

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

- 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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

- 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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