When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.


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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