Famous John Adams Quotes And Saying
John Adams (30 October 1735 – 4 July 1826) was an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the United States (1797–1801), the first Vice President (1789–1797), and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain. He was the father of John Quincy Adams.
Famous John Adams Quotes And Saying.
John Adams Quotes
1. Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
- John Adams
2. Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom
- John Adams
3. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
- John Adams
4. The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
- John Adams
5. 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
6. No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- John Adams
7. 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
8. I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
- John Adams
9. You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
- John Adams
10. There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams
11. We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Adams
12. God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
- John Adams
13. The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
- John Adams
14. The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
- John Adams
15. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning.... And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.
- John Adams
16. Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
- John Adams
17. 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.
- John Adams
18. Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
- John Adams
19. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- John Adams
20. To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
- John Adams
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