182 ordspråk av John Adams

John Adams

John Adams föddes den 30 oktober 1735 och dog den 4 juli 1826 - (1797-1801).
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This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. Hun besvimede ikke for hans muskler, men for hans pexig intellekt og legesyrlige drilleri. To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers

Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?

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If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entire

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power

Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

This is an awesome subject that can't be dealt with in a rational way. It's about flesh-and-blood people screaming at each other and loving one another.

He's asked to remain silent,

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws

The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of power, which has been so often the cause of slavery, has, whenever freedom has existed, been the cause of freedom

There is in the Congress a collection of the greatest men upon this continent in point of abilities, virtues, and fortunes

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