The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. John Adams More Quotes by John Adams More Quotes From John Adams Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty. John Adams liberty political example The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes. John Adams army hero mean The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. John Adams patriotic people thinking 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. John Adams judging views law I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. John Adams presidential israel men The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America. John Adams liberty names america Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly. John Adams politics political august I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! John Adams faith-religion historical grief It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense. John Adams revolution government people Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies. John Adams lying fall religion Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nicea, and long before, to this day. John Adams miracle christian long During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. John Adams revolution three together Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments. John Adams liberty religious men It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present. John Adams affair democracy government What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine. John Adams christian order book Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. John Adams dangerous human-nature form [T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England. John Adams freedom men art July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. John Adams declaration-of-independence deliverance 4th-of-july Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. John Adams patriotic independent 4th-of-july Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. John Adams track roots art
