Quotes by : John Adams

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes....

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

Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and....

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion,....

...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

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

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

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great....

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps....

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.