The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
John AdamsAmbition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
John AdamsArms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John AdamsThe Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost... There is no Authority civil or religious: there can be no legitimate Government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All, without it is Rebellion and Perdition, or in more orthodox words Damnation.
John AdamsPublic virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.
John Adams