John adams

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...

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

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.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential...