John Adams Quotes - Page 11

• What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

  John Adams

  Love, Government, Form

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.107

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• All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

  John Adams

  Political, Mind, Politics

  Sociedad Histórica de Massachusetts, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). "Cartas Warren-Adams: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814"

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• Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

  John Adams

  Country, Determination, Swim

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.8

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• Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

  John Adams

  Life, Virtue, Frugality

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.58, UPNE

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• Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.

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  Practice, United States, Slavery

  John Adams, Carolyn P. Yoder (2007). “John Adams, the writer: a treasury of letters, diaries, and public documents”, Calkins Creek Books

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• La suerte está echada. La gente ha pasado el río y cortado el puente. Anoche se vaciaron tres cargamentos de té en el puerto. Es el mayor acontecimiento que ha ocurrido desde que se abrió la controversia con Gran Bretaña.

  John Adams

  Corte, Noche, Puentes

  John Adams (1854). "The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations", p.333

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• Los Estados Unidos de América han exhibido, tal vez, el primer ejemplo de gobiernos erigidos sobre los simples principios de la naturaleza. . . . [En] la formación de los gobiernos americanos... nunca se pretenderá que las personas empleadas en ese servicio se entrevistaron con los dioses, o que estuvieron en algún grado bajo la influencia del cielo. . . . Estos gobiernos fueron concebidos meramente mediante el uso de la razón y los sentidos.

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  Simple, Government, America

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• Las consecuencias de estas instituciones (Las ciudades o distritos, las congregaciones, las escuelas, y la milicia.) han sido, que los habitantes, habiendo adquirido desde su infancia el hábito de discutir, de deliberar, y de juzgar de los asuntos públicos, fue en estas asambleas de ciudades o distritos que los sentimientos del pueblo se formaron en primer lugar, y sus resoluciones fueron tomadas desde el principio hasta el final de las disputas y la guerra con Gran Bretaña.

  John Adams

  Educación, Guerra, Tomada

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• If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.

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  Real, Government, Balance

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.377

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• What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity but truth, virtue, and his country? I will tell you; he will be regarded more by posterity than those who worship hounds and horses; and although he will not make his own fortune, he will make the fortune of his country.

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  Country, Horse, Independent

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.512

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• Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.

  John Adams

  Stupid, Passion, Men

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). "Los escritos políticos de John Adams: Representative Selections", p.85, Hackett Publishing

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• La propiedad es sin duda un derecho de la humanidad tan real como la libertad. Tal vez, al principio, el prejuicio, el hábito, la vergüenza o el miedo, los principios o la religión, impedirían a los pobres atacar a los ricos, y a los ociosos usurpar a los laboriosos; pero no pasaría mucho tiempo antes de que el valor y la empresa llegaran, y se inventaran pretextos gradualmente, para permitir a la mayoría dividir toda la propiedad entre ellos, o al menos, compartirla equitativamente con sus actuales poseedores.

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  Real, Largo, Libertad

  John Adams (2015). "Las obras de John Adams Vol. 6: Defensa de la Constitución IV, Discursos sobre Davila", p.11, Jazzybee Verlag.

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• Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

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  Men, Democracies Have, Body

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.406, Regnery Publishing

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• ¿Recurriremos al arte de la imprenta? Pero esto no ha destruido la propiedad o la aristocracia o las corporaciones o la riqueza de papel en Inglaterra o América, ni ha disminuido la influencia de ninguna de ellas; al contrario, ha multiplicado la aristocracia y disminuido la democracia.

  John Adams

  Arte, América, Democracia

  John Adams (2001). "The Political Writings of John Adams", p.432, Regnery Publishing

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• Siempre he considerado la colonización de América con reverencia y asombro, como la apertura de una gran escena y designio de la providencia, para la iluminación de los ignorantes y la emancipación de la parte esclava de la humanidad en toda la tierra.

  John Adams

  4 th Of July, Patriótico, Iluminación

  John Adams (2004). "The Portable John Adams", p.214, Penguin

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• What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money; and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.

  John Adams

  America, Judging, Decision

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of”, p.171

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• It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

  John Adams

  Government, People, Revolution

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of”, p.399

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• Nunca me comprometí en asuntos públicos por mi propio interés, placer, envidia, celos, avaricia o ambición, ni siquiera por el deseo de fama...

  John Adams

  Celos, ambición, envidia

  John Adams (1854). "The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations", p.593

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• They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.

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  Acknowledge, Expected

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• The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Code Of Ethics, Christianity, Founding Fathers Religion

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). "The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations", p.229

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• Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

  John Adams

  Educación, Hombres, Diferencias

  John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Mi país ha ideado para mí el cargo más insignificante que jamás haya ideado el hombre o concebido su imaginación.

  John Adams

  Country, Men, History

  John Adams (1841). “Letters, Addressed to His Wife”, p.133

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• There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

  John Adams

  War, Guilt, Greater

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• Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.

  John Adams

  Passion, Judging, Intellectual

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography”, p.79

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• There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

  John Adams

  Mind, Enemy, Storm

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