John Adams

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of…

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries…

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were…

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but…

The happiness of society is the end of government…

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of…

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to…

Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his…

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It…

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which…

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better…

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate…

A government of laws, and not of men…

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution…

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction…