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. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.


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JOHN ADAMS
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian rel...
JOHN ADAMS
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS
Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
JOHN ADAMS
Those who attend to small expenses are always rich
JOHN ADAMS
Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human natur...
JOHN ADAMS
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity
JOHN ADAMS
The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of...
JOHN ADAMS
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
JOHN ADAMS
When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...
JOHN ADAMS
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. JOHN ADAMS You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w...
JOHN ADAMS
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
JOHN ADAMS
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...
JOHN ADAMS
Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capabl...
JOHN ADAMS
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS
Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a...
JOHN ADAMS
Ontario is so far behind in newborn screening that this is a useful baby step, but there are signifi...
JOHN ADAMS
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican gove...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
"Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS