John Adams

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

John Adams

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Adams

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and to inflame his ambition.

John Adams

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

John Adams

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

John Adams

All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

John Adams

Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

John Adams

But a constitution of government once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

John Adams