John adams

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Genius is sorrow's child.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.