"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not agree ourselves bound by whatsoever laws in which we have no vocalisation or representation."
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
"I do not say that republic has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never tin be and so durable equally elite or monarchy; but while information technology lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, republic never lasts long. It before long wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did non commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less aggressive, or less avaricious than elite or monarchy. It is non truthful, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple authorities, and when unchecked, produce the same furnishings of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the nearly considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals take conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never."
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
"The longer I alive, the more than I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Beloved mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough."
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
"You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is i of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying.
In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom and Virtue. You lot will come across them represented, with all the Charms which Language and Imagination tin showroom, and Vice and Folly painted in all their Deformity and Horror.
Yous volition ever retrieve that all the End of study is to brand you a good Homo and a useful Denizen.—This volition ever be the Sum total of the Advice of your appreciating Begetter,
John Adams"
― John Adams, The Messages of John and Abigail Adams
"If we hateful to take Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should accept learned women. The earth perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, just you I know have a heed too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early on Teaching of youth and the starting time principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, smashing benefit must ascend from literary accomplishments in women. "
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
"...Plow our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over once again all the accounts we accept of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; cognition has been about exclusively confined to the clergy. And, fifty-fifty since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the virtually ungentlemanly insolence, the near yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. Simply touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you lot will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm most your legs and easily, and fly into your confront and eyes.
[Messages to John Taylor, 1814, XVIII, p. 484]"
― John Adams, The Messages of John and Abigail Adams
"But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that take made them the most bloody faith that ever existed? How has it happened that all the fine arts, compages, painting, sculpture, statuary, music, poetry, and oratory, accept been prostituted, from the cosmos of the globe, to the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?
[Letter of the alphabet to judge F.A. Van der Kamp, December 27, 1816.]"
― John Adams, Familiar Letters Of John Adams And His Wife Abigail Adams During The Revolution: With A Memoir Of Mrs. Adams
"[Independence Twenty-four hour period] will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it volition be historic, by succeeding Generations, as the not bad ceremony Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Mean solar day of Deliverance past solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to exist solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm merely I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will price Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Still through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Calorie-free and Glory. I can see that the End is more than than worth all the Means. And that Posterity volition tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue information technology, which I trust in God We shall not."
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
"You tell me that you lot sometimes view the nighttime side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal'd from you. Do not judge by this, that your opinion is an indifferent matter to me, (were it and so, I should look forward with a heavey Centre,) merely it is far otherways, for I had rather stand fair there, and be thought well of by Lysander than past the greater function of the Globe likewise. I would fain hope that those faults which yous discover, proceed more, from a wrong Head, than a bad Heart. E'er long May I be connected with a Friend from whose Instance I may form a more than faultless comport, and whose benevolent mind will lead him to pardon, what he cannot better."
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
"Human being nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. Information technology is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and goodness, which we accept reason to believe, appear as respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences. Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early pedagogy and abiding discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Isaac Newton and John Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study."
― John Adams, Familiar Letters Of John Adams And His Married woman Abigail Adams During The Revolution: With A Memoir Of Mrs. Adams
"an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it volition be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited ability into the easily of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If item care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will non hold ourselves bound by whatsoever laws in which we have no voice or representation."
― John Adams, The Messages of John and Abigail Adams
"Before I end this letter, I pray heaven to bestow the all-time of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none merely honest and wise men rule under this roof. November ii, 1800."
― John Adams, The Messages of John and Abigail Adams
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