John Adams Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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John Adams quotes and sayings page 2 (77 year old president). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 37 we have for him.

John Adams Quotes
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”
John Adams Quotes
“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.”
John Adams Quotes
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
John Adams Quotes
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
John Adams Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
John Adams Quotes
“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
John Adams Quotes
“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”
John Adams Quotes
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”

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