John Adams Quotations

• But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
• In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

                                                                                                                                     John Adams