Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts

John Adams on Liberty

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 7:05 AM

“Statesmen my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. . . . The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a greater Measure, than they have it now, They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.—They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies.”

John Adams



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John Adams on the Cost of Prosperity

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 6:30 AM

“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your Freedom!  I hope you will make good use of it.  If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”

John Adams


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John Adams on the Dangers of Men

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, September 24, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"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."
~John Adams~



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John Adams on Revolution

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us.  We are in the very midst of a revolution- the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations."
~John Adams~

 
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John Adams on the Commandments

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, December 27, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.  If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free."
~John Adams~ 

 
 
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John Adams on Good Character

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"Oh!  That I could wear out of my mind every mean and base affection, conquer my natural pride and self conceit, expect no more difference from my fellows than I deserve, acquire that meekness, and humility, which are the sure marks and characters of a great and generous soul, and subdue every unworthy passion and treat all men as I wish to be treated by all."
~John Adams~

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John Adams on Man and State

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, December 3, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"I believe in God and in His wisdom and benevolence: and I cannot conceive that such a being could make such a species as the human merely to live and die on this earth. 
If I did not believe a future state I should believe in no God.  This universe, this all, would appear with all it's swelling pomp, a boyish firework!"
~John Adams~

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John Adams on the Heart of Man

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8:00 AM

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

John Adams
 
 
 
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John Adams on Fear

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 4:00 AM

"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
John Adams

 
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John Adams on Power Corrupts

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
 John Adams





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John Adams

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: | Posted On Monday, November 30, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
John Adams


 
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John Adams on Democracy

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:30 AM

"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


 
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John Adams on Facts

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, August 21, 2009 at 1:20 PM

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

John Adams - December 1770


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John Adams on the Constitution

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM

""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 was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

John Adams – October 11, 1798


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