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 costfreedomgeneration Change image and share on social
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams generalknowledgeliberty Change image and share on social
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. John Adams aristocracybloodycommit share on social
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 bewitchbreakcharm Change image and share on social
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams constitutiongovernmentinadequate Change image and share on social
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 advanceagogovernment Change image and share on social
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams abusechicanerydivision Change image and share on social
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams commitdemocracyexhaust Change image and share on social
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. John Adams agentchoicedetermine Change image and share on social
