John Adams Quotes About Affairs

Quotes about: Affairs

• If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

  John Adams

  Believe, Men, Tails

  John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

• I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Believe, Fate

  Letter to F. A. Van der Kemp, February 16, 1808.

• The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.

  John Adams

  Education, War, Taken

• It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

  John Adams

  Government, Democracy, Affair

  John Adams (2016). “Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787”, p.539, Harvard University Press

• It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

  John Adams

  Government, People, Revolution

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of”, p.399

• I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

  John Adams

  Jealousy, Ambition, Envy

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.593

• Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

  John Adams

  Abuse, Usual, Goes On

  John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Lester Jesse Cappon, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, The University of North Carolina Press

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