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John Adams (1735 - 1826) US diplomat & politician

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.



No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.


The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.


We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.