This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}
Author: John Adams
![This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/210910.Napoleon" title="Napoleon" rel="nofollow noopener">Napoleon</a>'s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.<br /><br />{<i>Letter to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1673.Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson" rel="nofollow noopener">Thomas Jefferson</a>, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits</i>} - John Adams](/static/img/quotes/549532.jpg)