Quotes By John Adams

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.