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Quote DB :: Authors :: John Adams :: View Quote View Quote "I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than the means." - Copy to Clipboard   --  John Adams Listed in: America Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.4  Rate Quote 10 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from John Adams "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." "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." "You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate." "We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody!" "There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live." Top 5 quotes from America "The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens, and there it will always be safe." "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." "There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." "In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."

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