I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John AdamsThere are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
John AdamsIt is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
John Adams