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 AdamsThe frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.
John AdamsA taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
John AdamsMy country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams