John Adams Quotes

After seeing this amazing series and after further research I can comfortably say John Adams is officially my favourite founding father. The man was human he was flawed as they all where and yet he had the most amazing values and traits that are very admirable. He did a lot for the revolution and does not get enough credit. This is my dedication to him. Enjoy my John Adams Quotes

• JOHN ADAMS QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
• It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
• 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.
• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
• There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
• Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
• In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
• 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.
• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
• The happiness of society is the end of government.
• Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
• You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
• Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
• Fear is the foundation of most governments.
• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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