John Adams
14 quotations
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Thomas Jefferson -- still surv
Genius is sorrow's child.
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
In politics the middle way is none at all.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
The happiness of society is the end of government.
I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
A government of laws and not of men.