John Adams Quotes

• But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

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

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• What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people…

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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

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• Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

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• What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass is Tom Paine ’s common sense.

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• You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.

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• The second day of July1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. It ought to be solemnised with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other—from this time forward, for ever more.

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• I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

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• You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

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• A government of laws, and not of men.

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• While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

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• When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

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• The happiness of society is the end of government.

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• The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

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• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

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• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.

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Birth:	30th October, 1735
Death:	4th July, 1826
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

John Adams was born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, United States. He was an American politician who served as the second President of the United States from 1797–1801 and the first Vice President of the United States from 1789–1797. He was a lawyer, diplomat, political theorist, and as a Founding Father, a leader of the movement for American independence from Great Britain. As a diplomat in Europe, he helped negotiate the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and acquired vital governmental loans from Amsterdam bankers. He earned a BA degree in 1755 and an MA degree in 1758 both from Harvard University. He is the author of book, entitled Thoughts on Government. He married to Abigail Smith in 1764.

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