Quotes on history

history of this quote “Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.” by John Adams

Topics: better, committing, every

history of this quote “Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.” by John Adams

Topics: every, flowing, history

history of this quote “Virtue is not always amiable.” by John Adams

Topics: adams, always, amiable

history of this quote “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” by John Adams

Topics: capable, contending, government

history of this quote “What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?” by John Adams

Topics: another, dwell, forms

history of this quote “In Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.” by John Adams

Topics: adams, history, john

history of this quote “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy.” by John Adams

Topics: history, liberty, mathematicks

history of this quote “The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men… On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.” by John Adams

Topics: enthusiasm, flights, fluctuations

history of this quote “Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.” by John Adams

Topics: belonged, democracy, history

“When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.”

Topics: history, infancy, life

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