Quotes by : John Adams

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

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

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness,....

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

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak,....

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

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

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into....

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation....

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is....