Quotes by John Adams
Find quotes by John Adams- born October 30, 1735 John Adams was a prominent Scorpio. He was an American politician and political philosopher and the second President of the United States (1797–1801). Most well known for being the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States. He was also a leading figure in the early stages of the American Revolution. As a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, he was instrumental in convincing Congress to declare independence, and helped Thomas Jefferson in drafting the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. Never faltering and heading always forward in what he believed demonstrates some of the strongest traits of a Scorpio.But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever .
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other .
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. He is obliged, consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection; and to give his personal service, or an equivalent, when necessary.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
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