The Complete Works of John Adams Quotes

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

“But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States