John Adams Famous Quotes
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
"Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year."
"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."
"Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
"Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence."
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams Quotations
"Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done."
Julia Louise Woodruff
There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
Duke Ellington
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel
"It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State."
Roger B Taney
"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
Pietro Aretino
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How God ever brings like to like.
Homer
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
La Rochefoucauld
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan