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John Adams

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Ideology is the science of idiots.


— John Adams


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Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.


— John Adams


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John Adams - “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.


— John Adams


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Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.


— John Adams


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I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life


— John Adams


#communication

This country has done much, I wish it may do more, and annul every narrow idea in religion, government, and commerce.


— John Adams


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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.


— John Adams


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Genius is sorrow's child.


— John Adams


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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.


— John Adams


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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.


— John Adams


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About John Adams






Did you know about John Adams?

In February 1799 he stunned the country by sending diplomat William Vans Murray on a peace mission to France. Judicial appointments


Supreme court

One of Adams' greatest legacies was his naming of John Marshall as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States to succeed Oliver Ellsworth who had retired due to ill health. The first modern biography was Honest John Adams a 1933 biography by the noted French specialist in American history Gilbert Chinard who came to Adams after writing his acclaimed 1929 biography of Thomas Jefferson.

Adams signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts and built up the army and navy especially in the face of an undeclared naval war (called the "Quasi-War") with France 1798–1800. Well educated he was an Enlightenment political theorist who promoted republicanism and wrote prolifically about his often seminal ideas both in publiJohn Adamsd works and in letters to his wife and key adviser Abigail as well as to other Founding Fathers. John Adams (October 30 1735 (O.

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