John Adams best Design Quotes – “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.”
John Adams best Birthday Quotes – “Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy. – John Adams
All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. – John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. – John Adams
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. – John Adams
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. – John Adams
A government of laws, and not of men. – John Adams
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 Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. – John Adams
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. – John Adams
The happiness of society is the end of government. – John Adams
Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. – John Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams