"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." — John Adams "There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live." — John Adams "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." — John Adams "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." — John Adams "Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right." — John Adams "I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading." — John Adams "You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen." — John Adams | "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." — John Adams "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." — John Adams "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt." — John Adams "Power must never be trusted without a check." — John Adams | "I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read." — John Adams "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." — John Adams "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 "The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough." — John Adams "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." — John Adams |