I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
John AdamsBut all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our sensesโฆare much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has made for the gratification of our nobler powers of intelligence and reason. He has given us reason to find out the truth, and the real design and true end of our existence.
John Adams