Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. John Adams Power
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 History
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams Society
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 Freedom
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. John Adams Hope
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. John Adams Power
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. John Adams Independence
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 Government
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 Hope
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. John Adams Government
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams Age
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams Government
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 Good
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. John Adams Government
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams Power