John Adams was a direct descendant of Puritan colonists from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His son, John Quincy Adams, was the nation's sixth president.
John Adams was a Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.” In this I am nothing, but I may be everything.” “Great is the guilt of the unnecessary war.” “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."” “I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. What will be the consequence, I know not." ” “Facts are stubborn things.” “I cannot but wish I were better qualified.” “Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.” “Gentlemen, I feel a great difficulty how to act. Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” “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.” “We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.” “People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.” “The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.” “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge.
“But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
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