John Adams
John Adams
John Adamswas an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the United States, the first Vice President, and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain. Adams was a political theorist in the Age of Enlightenment who promoted republicanism and a strong central government. His innovative ideas were frequently published. He was also a dedicated diarist and correspondent, particularly with his wife and key advisor Abigail...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth30 October 1735
CountryUnited States of America
I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.
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.
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.
I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!
I shall have the liberty to think for myself.
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.