FastSaying

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.


John Adams

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS This is an illegitimate constitution presented to the people by an untrustworthy government, ... Our...
ABU AHMED Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observan...
RICHARD MENTOR JOHNSON When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument...
PATRICK HENRY wholly inadequate and incomplete.
HARVEY PITT America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Co...
EDWIN MEESE Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhap...
EDMUND BURKE Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people ...
GERALD R. FORD The Illinois Conference of Churches regards the granting of an exemption to any government entity fo...
DAVID ANDERSON The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.
JOHN CHILCOT To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redoub...
EDWIN MEESE In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Govern...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secu...
LEON WIESELTIER Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population....
BEN SHAPIRO The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is our religious duty to say 'yes' to the constitution and to go to the ballot boxes.
ABDUL HAKIM It is our religious duty to say 'yes' to the constitution and to go to the ballot boxes.
ABDUL AZIZ HAKIM How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any...
FOSTER FRIESS I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book...
NARENDRA MODI Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and author...
MITT ROMNEY The conception of secular state is derived from the liberal democratic tradition of west. No institu...
B.R. AMBEDKAR As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution shoul...
ARLEN SPECTER The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral iss...
JIM WALLIS Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and Go...
LUTHER BURBANK It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED SMITH It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED E. SMITH It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
AL SMITH Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious develop...
JOHN BURROUGHS America cannot hold itself as a moral beacon to the world if it violates the rule of law by engaging...
JAMIL DAKWAR I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liber...
DON YOUNG So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of Ind...
NARENDRA MODI Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Each of us individually has ...
JAMES DENNEY There's been an effort over recent decades to persuade many conservative religious people that separ...
CHARLES HAYNES The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER Our Constitution was put together for a free people.
BUTCH OTTER Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
GERALD R. FORD The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation&#...
R. J. CUTLER The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated thes...
WEN JIABAO John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he...
MICHELE BACHMANN The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sent...
ELAINE PAGELS It was judicial tyranny. If the constitution is changed, it can only be changed by a vote of the peo...
KRIS MINEAU Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our father...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotr...
GILES FRASER I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of L...
DON YOUNG It's our moral obligation, as well as, I believe, it is the government's obligation to take ...
MARCIA FUDGE It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accoun...
DEBBIE STABENOW In the midst of a national disaster of biblical proportions, it is difficult for the American people...
TED KENNEDY The Constitution is very similar to a human skeleton. It is the framework upon which government oper...
E. HICKS No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people...
CAL THOMAS Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat...
GLENN BECK It's outrageous that Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed other radical sexual agenda bills that undermi...
RANDY THOMASSON My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic...
GERALD R. FORD It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depe...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We don't look for moral victories. This was a loss like any other loss.
GAVIN GRANT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It seems contradictory for the government to be saying, 'You can't try this case because the record'...
CLAYTON RUBY The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.
CAROLYN MALONEY Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties...
AYN RAND Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hami...
R.B. BERNSTEIN Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religiou...
GARY HAMEL Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyon...
LARRY HARVEY America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have s...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution...
THOMAS JEFFERSON ADAMS asked us what we needed and since we had been borrowing other emergency response vehicles from...
MAURICE MORALES Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The unprovoked water attack on our religious and political leaders who were conducting a peaceful re...
FRANKLIN DRILON (Sibley) was a devout Baptist and believed in having a strong moral fiber. He believed that if you a...
JACK BAKER I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth...
RAND PAUL Progressives did not like the antiquated thinking that saw the Constitution as a barrier to governme...
SHELDON RICHMAN At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other d...
ROSA PARKS At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this, ... It was just a day like any oth...
ROSA PARKS Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -...
JOHN ADAMS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON We're opposed to any employer's policy of discrimination based on sexuality. This is based on our re...
PETER MILLER Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If all people were to be judged by 'right and wrong', nobody would be wholly right or wholly wrong -...
CHRISTINA ENGELA No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the pe...
CAL THOMAS Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's ...
DANNEL MALLOY These represent a major expansion of this notion of right of refusal. You're seeing it broadening to...
ELIZABETH NASH The government was set to protect man from criminals – and the Constitution was written to protect...
AYN RAND Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of ...
BERNARD DEVOTO The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adam...
DAVE BRUBECK Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any ...
JOHN WYCLIFFE The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its o...
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twe...
JOHN H. REAGAN Belief is only the beginning... (Stephanie Adams Quote For GODDESSY.com)
STEPHANIE ADAMS

More John Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm a...
JOHN ADAMS It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important...
JOHN ADAMS I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which...
JOHN ADAMS Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the hear...
JOHN ADAMS The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at a...
JOHN ADAMS Where annual elections end, there slavery begins
JOHN ADAMS The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the ...
JOHN ADAMS The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the...
JOHN ADAMS While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better unders...
JOHN ADAMS If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN ADAMS Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN ADAMS Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -...
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
JOHN ADAMS Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democrac...
JOHN ADAMS There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each ar...
JOHN ADAMS I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which t...
JOHN ADAMS If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
JOHN ADAMS The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of ...
JOHN ADAMS The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own l...
JOHN ADAMS Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm ...
JOHN ADAMS Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
JOHN ADAMS In politics the middle way is none at all.
JOHN ADAMS Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
JOHN ADAMS Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and divi...
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular cours...
JOHN ADAMS There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
JOHN ADAMS A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one o...
JOHN ADAMS Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ...
JOHN ADAMS Fear is the foundation of most government.
JOHN ADAMS Genius is sorrow's child.
JOHN ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
JOHN ADAMS When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such ...
JOHN ADAMS Thomas Jefferson -- still surv
JOHN ADAMS As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long...
JOHN ADAMS The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislati...
JOHN ADAMS But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing u...
JOHN ADAMS I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaratio...
JOHN ADAMS The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too m...
JOHN ADAMS I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possess...
JOHN ADAMS You say that at the time of the Congress, in 1765, The great mass of the people were zealous in the ...
JOHN ADAMS As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by ...
JOHN ADAMS I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
JOHN ADAMS I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit ...
JOHN ADAMS All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constit...
JOHN ADAMS The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt ...
JOHN ADAMS There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into ...
JOHN ADAMS While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolati...
JOHN ADAMS Thomas Jefferson still survives.
JOHN ADAMS Fear is the foundation of most governments.
JOHN ADAMS The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
JOHN ADAMS As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long...
JOHN ADAMS Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS Genius is sorrow's child.
JOHN ADAMS I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
JOHN ADAMS I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand sce...
JOHN ADAMS Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
JOHN ADAMS The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with al...
JOHN ADAMS A government of laws, and not of men.
JOHN ADAMS Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, s...
JOHN ADAMS Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ...
JOHN ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN ADAMS The happiness of society is the end of government.
JOHN ADAMS Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the impo...
JOHN ADAMS Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implie...
JOHN ADAMS Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and cr...
JOHN ADAMS The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed...
JOHN ADAMS Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy ...
JOHN ADAMS All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitutio...
JOHN ADAMS Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is d...
JOHN ADAMS ...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...
JOHN ADAMS The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a ro...
JOHN ADAMS Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, sp...
JOHN ADAMS The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
JOHN ADAMS That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the mi...
JOHN ADAMS ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue a...
JOHN ADAMS Jefferson still survivies.
JOHN ADAMS Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy...
JOHN ADAMS All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitut...
JOHN ADAMS Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
JOHN ADAMS There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living...
JOHN ADAMS You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are th...
JOHN ADAMS No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
JOHN ADAMS In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and...
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
JOHN ADAMS But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once los...
JOHN ADAMS The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the publi...
JOHN ADAMS The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion
JOHN ADAMS That's what they admire most about the horse, his durability.
JOHN ADAMS And before I knew it one came up and then immediately punches started coming from all directions and...
JOHN ADAMS But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, ...
JOHN ADAMS My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contriv...
JOHN ADAMS Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and...
JOHN ADAMS Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
JOHN ADAMS Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right...
JOHN ADAMS It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their co...
JOHN ADAMS The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dread...
JOHN ADAMS Politics are the divine science, after all
JOHN ADAMS It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power
JOHN ADAMS Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
JOHN ADAMS The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and ...
JOHN ADAMS Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and tha...
JOHN ADAMS Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
JOHN ADAMS Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importan...
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy...
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation
JOHN ADAMS The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or ...
JOHN ADAMS Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so ext...
JOHN ADAMS There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to liv...
JOHN ADAMS It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the...
JOHN ADAMS Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...
JOHN ADAMS Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found with...
JOHN ADAMS The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, th...
JOHN ADAMS The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and e...
JOHN ADAMS My critics feel there was a lack of fairness in the opera, because the Palestinians are treated with...
JOHN ADAMS I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times...
JOHN ADAMS I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened...
JOHN ADAMS Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by p...
JOHN ADAMS We've seen bobcats. We've seen what I call a mountain lion, down in town. And, last year, we caught ...
JOHN ADAMS There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God
JOHN ADAMS A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and ...
JOHN ADAMS Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being nece...
JOHN ADAMS This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it
JOHN ADAMS But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a n...
JOHN ADAMS Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ...
JOHN ADAMS And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from t...
JOHN ADAMS ...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next a...
JOHN ADAMS We are going to check whether signing up people automatically will help stem the denial and apathy a...
JOHN ADAMS I made the four minutes of the prelude entirely with the sound of hand-tools. At one point it sounds...
JOHN ADAMS Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and divis...
JOHN ADAMS These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-son...
JOHN ADAMS I've seen a lot of convention centers. But this building is truly special: The feel. The light. The ...
JOHN ADAMS Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
JOHN ADAMS The most important gap is that a whole host of disorders, called blood disorders, have been forgotte...
JOHN ADAMS I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition...
JOHN ADAMS If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?
JOHN ADAMS I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, t...
JOHN ADAMS You're connecting with the person, and it's really happening. It is only through the horror of those...
JOHN ADAMS Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
JOHN ADAMS Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make yo...
JOHN ADAMS In that telling, there were things that were exposed about Dr. King. It cut through me in a way I (h...
JOHN ADAMS We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all...
JOHN ADAMS Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to JOHN ADAMS Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would ...
JOHN ADAMS This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or JOHN ADAMS We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all s...
JOHN ADAMS ...I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.
JOHN ADAMS Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read...
JOHN ADAMS But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish ...
JOHN ADAMS As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian rel...
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
JOHN ADAMS Those who attend to small expenses are always rich
JOHN ADAMS Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human natur...
JOHN ADAMS The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity
JOHN ADAMS The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of...
JOHN ADAMS Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
JOHN ADAMS When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...
JOHN ADAMS Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. JOHN ADAMS You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w...
JOHN ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
JOHN ADAMS I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...
JOHN ADAMS Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capabl...
JOHN ADAMS We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a...
JOHN ADAMS Ontario is so far behind in newborn screening that this is a useful baby step, but there are signifi...
JOHN ADAMS A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican gove...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS