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John Adams quotes

American President October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826

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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. John Adams
But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes. John Adams
John Adams quote: "I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one..."
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
And then Franklin smote the ground and up rose George Washington, fully dressed and astride a horse! Then the three of them, Franklin, Washington and the HORSE, proceeded to win the entire revolution single handley! John Adams
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
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. John Adams
We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest. John Adams
John Adams quote: "Let us dare to read, think, speak and write."
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. John Adams
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. John Adams
John Adams quote: "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and..."
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams
John Adams quote: "The only think most people do better than anyone else is read..."
The only think most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. John Adams
John Adams quote: "I shall never shine 'til some animating occasion calls forth..."
I shall never shine 'til some animating occasion calls forth all my powers. John Adams
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. John Adams
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. John Adams

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