John Adams Quotes

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.

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.