John Adams’s Most Inspirational Quotes
A collection of beautiful and Inspirational Quotes by John Adams, this article we look at John Adams’s most inspiring quotes. Quotes often give context; they can mean different things to different people, here you will find some of the best quotes by John Adams.
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
John Adams
John Adams
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Pray how does your asparagus perform?
John Adams
John Adams
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.
John Adams
I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.
John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
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
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
John Adams
Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
John Adams
The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
John Adams
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
John Adams
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
John Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
John Adams
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
John Adams
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams
Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
John Adams
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
Power must never be trusted without a check.
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