“The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
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“I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
Source: Works: with a life of the author
Source: The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams
“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811
Source: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
Source: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778
Source: The Portable John Adams
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams
Source: Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784-1822
Source: Letters, Addressed to His Wife
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
Source: Discourses on Davila: A series of papers, on political history. Written in the year 1790, and then published in the Gazette of the United States
Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826
Source: My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.”
“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Power must never be trusted without a check.”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations