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John Adams

Read through the most famous quotes from John Adams




I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.


— John Adams


#education #reading #education

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.


— John Adams


#duty

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.


— John Adams


#inspirational-attitude #lifelong-learning #reading #attitude

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.


— John Adams


#freedom-of-thought #scientific-inquiry #education

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.


— John Adams


#religion #religious-freedom #freedom

The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.


— John Adams


#penmanship #specialists #humor

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?


— John Adams


#christianity #fables #legends #religion #religion

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.


— John Adams


#faith

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.


— John Adams


#letters #faith

Ideology is the science of idiots.


— John Adams


#john-adams #politics #science






About John Adams






Did you know about John Adams?

In February 1799 he stunned the country by sending diplomat William Vans Murray on a peace mission to France. Judicial appointments


Supreme court

One of Adams' greatest legacies was his naming of John Marshall as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States to succeed Oliver Ellsworth who had retired due to ill health. The first modern biography was Honest John Adams a 1933 biography by the noted French specialist in American history Gilbert Chinard who came to Adams after writing his acclaimed 1929 biography of Thomas Jefferson.

Adams signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts and built up the army and navy especially in the face of an undeclared naval war (called the "Quasi-War") with France 1798–1800. Well educated he was an Enlightenment political theorist who promoted republicanism and wrote prolifically about his often seminal ideas both in publiJohn Adamsd works and in letters to his wife and key adviser Abigail as well as to other Founding Fathers. John Adams (October 30 1735 (O.

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