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John Adams
You will never...
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...
Grief drives men...
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the...
I agree with...
I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.
Source: In The...
Did you ever...
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and...
Courage and perseverance...
Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into...
Facts are stubborn...
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they...
When people talk...
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever...
I always consider...
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in...
While all other...
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill -- little better understood, little...
A desire to...
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as...
I must study...
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and...
Power always thinks...
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the...
Genius is sorrow's...
Genius is sorrow's child.
Source: In
Abuse of words...
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of...
The essance of...
The essance of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
Liberty can not...
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
Source:...
The Revolution was...
The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a...
If we do...
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Remember, democracy never...
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet...
Our Constitution was...
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any...