I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
John AdamsI cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life
John AdamsTag: inspirational
Facts are stubborn things.
John AdamsBut touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.
John AdamsBe not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
John AdamsTag: politeness hypocrisy cowardice decency chicanery
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
John AdamsThere are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.
John AdamsIn Virginia... all geese are swans.
John AdamsThis 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}
Tag: history jefferson thomas-jefferson despotism calamity french-revolution napoleon napoleon-bonaparte jesuits
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The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.
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