John Adams Quotes

Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

John Adams

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Walk

• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Another
  • Remorse

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Art
  • Glory
  • Bear

• Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Happy
  • Be Happy
  • Vine

• It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Culture
  • Never
  • Early

• I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Think
  • Agenda

• There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Book
  • Study
  • Thought

• I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thanks

• The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Will
  • Conflict
  • Final

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Friend

• It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Time
  • Good
  • Respect

• In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • History

• Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

  

  George Sanders
  • Acting
  • Exciting
  • Stimulating

• The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Song

• Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Risk
  • Losing
  • Novelty

• I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • People
  • Country
  • Passion

• I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Photographer
  • Documentaries

• Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

  

  John Adams