It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to a declaration of independence.

My life my selfie!

As a Father, I willingly nurture & protect the Soul's of all those - I love.

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.

If you don't believe in miracles, you will see none.

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.

If you love god, burn a church.