Quotes by : John Adams

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge for....

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial....

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.....

Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided....

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged....

While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation....

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope....

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all....

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet....