John Adams
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We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact!
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.
All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821 ― 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.
Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.
Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle ― John Adams
Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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.
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge... ― John Adams
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