John Adams Quotes

My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.

John Adams

Quotes to Explore

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Gabriel Byrne
- People
- Good
- Character
For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Thinking
- Country
- War
I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Ed Miliband
- People
- Great
- God
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Edmund Burke
- People
- Good
- Happy
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Sam Levenson
- Imagination
- Young
- Facts
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

Hari Kunzru