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

— John Adams

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

Player: Can I reach it with a five iron? Caddie: Eventually.

— John Adams

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

— John Adams

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

— John Adams

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.

— John Adams

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

— John Adams

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

— John Adams

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

— John Adams

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy, yet that did not commit suicide.

— John Adams