So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.


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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