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
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
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. -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 Government
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
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
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
