John Adams (October 30 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American patriot who served as the second President of the United States (1797–1801) and the first Vice President (1789–97). He was a lawyer, diplomat, statesman, political theorist, and, as a Founding Father, a leader of the movement for American independence from Great Britain.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read think speak and write.
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.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.