John Adams Quotes

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
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.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
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.
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.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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30 October, 1735
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04 July, 1826
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