{"author":"John Adams","author_id":"John+Adams","total_quotes":73,"quotes":[{"text":"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.","author":"John Adams","tags":["freedom","message","posterity"],"id":6749,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.","author":"John Adams","tags":["great","soul","weak "],"id":8020,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.","author":"John Adams","tags":["freedom","writing","thinking "],"id":17700,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.","author":"John Adams","tags":["america","ignorance "],"id":38929,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.","author":"John Adams","tags":["trust","freedom","government "],"id":45544,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absur.","author":"John Adams","tags":["absurdity","argument","cover","divinity-of-jesus","excuse","hell","infinite","mystery"],"id":48121,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.","author":"John Adams","tags":["poetry"],"id":64205,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.","author":"John Adams","tags":["man","me","country "],"id":74208,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.","author":"John Adams","tags":["education","lifelong-learning","reading"],"id":85062,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.].","author":"John Adams","tags":["celts","chaldeans","clergy","greeks","hindu","hinduism","islam","knowledge","monopoly","muslim","persians","priesthood","priests","protestant","reformation","romans","science-vs-religion","sect","teutons"],"id":86477,"author_id":"John+Adams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}