John Adams Quotes About Reputation

Quotes about: Reputation

• [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

  John Adams

  Eye, Men, Intellectual

• He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

  John Adams

  Government, Reputation, Illiterate

• The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

  John Adams

  Writing, Men, Idols

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.240

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