Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. - John Adams 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. - John Adams 3 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. - John Adams 9 Share Now -
