Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
John AdamsI am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.
John AdamsThere never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.
John AdamsGriefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.
John Adams