The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 8
The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 1
I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve? John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0