John Adams quotes

“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.”

— John Adams

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”

— John Adams

“My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”

— John Adams

“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.”

— John Adams

“As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.”

— John Adams

“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.”

— John Adams