More From John Adams
- "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
- "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."
- "A government of laws, and not of men."
More In Government
- "I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn’t possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There’s a relationship to government about knights."― Harold Pinter
- "Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy."― Tina Fey
- "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."― Thomas Jefferson