John Adams

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 in what is now the town of Quincy, Massachusetts. Adams was the first Vice President of the United States, serving from 1789 through 1797, and the second President of the United States. His presidency ran from 1797 to 1801. His son, John Quincy Adams, was the sixth President of the United States.

President Adams died in 1826.

Quotes by John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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