John Adams Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

  John Adams

  Moving, Soul, Independence

  John Adams, Daniel LEONARD, Jonathan SEWALL (1819). “Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc”, p.25

• We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

  John Adams

  Heart, Ignorance, Greatness

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1979). “Papers of John Adams”

• Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

  John Adams

  Believe, Power, Thinking

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1959). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826”

• We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

  John Adams

  Men, Soul, Liberty

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.320, Library of America

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