Selected quotes · 13
№ 01
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”
John AdamsFreedom
№ 02
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
John AdamsCourage
№ 03
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
John AdamsMindset
№ 04
“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”
John AdamsAction
№ 05
“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
John AdamsJustice
№ 06
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John AdamsFreedom
№ 07
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
John AdamsFreedom
№ 08
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
John AdamsJustice
№ 09
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
John AdamsHappiness
№ 10
“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
John AdamsWisdom
№ 11
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John AdamsJustice
№ 12
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
John AdamsWisdom
№ 13
“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
John AdamsCourage