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 Trust
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. John Adams Imagination
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 Men
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams Great
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams Power
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 Freedom
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams Society
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams Politics
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. John Adams Imagination
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams Knowledge
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams Nature
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams God
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 Power
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 Freedom
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams War
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case. John Adams Health