John Adams Quotes

"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket."
-John Adams

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
-John Adams in Facts quotes.

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-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

"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
-John Adams

"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."
-John Adams in Patriotism quotes.

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
-John Adams

"Jefferson still survivies."
-John Adams

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"Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart."
-John Adams in Grief quotes.

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."
-John Adams

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
-John Adams in Religion quotes.

"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

"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution."
-John Adams

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
-John Adams in America quotes.

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

"Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand."
-John Adams

"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it."
-John Adams

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
-John Adams in Writing quotes.

"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."
-John Adams

"Thomas Jefferson still lives."
-John Adams

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion."
-John Adams

"That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world."
-John Adams in Majority quotes.

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
-John Adams

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
-John Adams