John Adams

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

John Adams

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

John Adams

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

John Adams

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

John Adams

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

There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.

John Adams

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.

John Adams

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

John Adams

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

John Adams

We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact!

John Adams