John Adams Quotes
Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.
Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion...in private self defense... , A defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471 (1788).
The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. , 1797, quoted in Hunter Miller's Treaties 2:365
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two men are called a Law Firm, and three or more are called a Congress.
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.
Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. -- John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. in letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780
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