Society, Politics·Government, John Adams

¶ The happiness of society is the end of government.

- John Adams (1735-1826)

¶ 사회의 행복이 정부의 목표다.

- 존 애덤스 (John Adams, 1735-1826) 미국 대통령

Virtue, John Adams

Omnium rerum domina, virtus. Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things. Therefore a nation that should never do wrong must necessarily govern the world. The might of virtue, the power of virtue, is not a very common topic, not so common as it should be.

- John Adams, Journal entry (6 August 1796).

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Essence, John Adams

When we say that God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.

- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820)

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Education, John Adams

Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Newton and Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study.

- John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams (29 October 1775), published Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Vol. 1 (1841), ed. Charles Francis Adams, p. 72.

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Money, John Adams

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (25 August 1787)

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