Quotes by John Adams

John Adams

President of the USA (2nd)

Alive from: 1735-1826

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  As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

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  Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

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  A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

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  Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

• John Quincy Adams

  

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  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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  Facts are stubborn things.
  Source: In een rechtzaal, 4 december 1770

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  Fear is the foundation of most governments.
  
  Source: Thoughts on Government, Apr. 1776

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  Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
  
  Source: Letter to Abigail Adams, 19-05-1794

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  Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

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  I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

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  I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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  If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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  In politics the middle way is none at all.

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  Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
  

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  Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.