John Adams Quotes

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

That's what they admire most about the horse, his durability.

I knew I needed to tell this story ... and discovered the depth of my ignorance in doing so.

I've seen a lot of convention centers. But this building is truly special The feel. The light. The vibe is terrific.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Think of your forefathers Think of your posterity.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

A government of laws, and not of men.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.

We're not going to put someone in a position where it's going to be harmful of their performance this weekend, but at the same time the team will represent itself proudly.

Duncan's counsel simply cannot be prepared to try three homicide cases in such a short period of time.

They really need something like that. A lot of times it probably wouldn't help, especially if you got an explosion, but it might help the survivors. It would be a good idea.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

Adams said Harrison was a generous friend and wise mentor ... decisive influence in my life.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, everybody had a hobby. It takes a lot of time. I've been teaching 4-H kids how to build planes for 30 years.

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last 30 years than Tom Paine.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''