Quotes About Adams

Tocqueville put it as bluntly as Franklin or Adams had, writing: "Liberty cannot be established without morality.

Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law. Each individual must govern himself, and for this morality was plainly necessary.

The Death Books Zahra and her forces were hunting were real, and they are referenced in Adams' Congressional testimony, as well. In my humble opinion, a full historical treatment of Henry Adams and his contributions to the race is long overdue, so all of you true historians out there, the ball's in your court.

Amy Adams is incredible and inspiring - she's amazing.

In 2002, after acquiring and integrating gum-maker Adams—a move that significantly expanded Cadbury's product and geographic reach—the

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

The door wasn't closing. Shiloh's spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

From many things that Adams and his contemporaries wrote, it is clear that they did not use the word "religion" to exclude Christian ideas or principles as some do today. The founders did not make institutional religion a part of the government, but they never thought of excluding Christian principles.

The president's title as proposed by the senate was the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of. It is a proof the more of the justice of the character given by Doctr. Franklin of my friend [John Adams]: 'Always an honest man, often a great one, but sometimes absolutely mad'.

This is why the Treaty of Tripoli of 1798, endorsed by John Adams and other members of America's founding generation, declared explicitly (and uncontroversially) that "the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.

The story of meat follows a sacred typology: the birth of a God, the dismemberment of the god's body, and the god's resurrection.

The next morning, Mailer crisscrossed Commercial Street looking for the young witches who had plagued his dreams, but they were nowhere to be found. He met Evelyn Lawson for coffee at Adams Pharmacy, where she updated him on her book about the Costa case. "I'm

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

Both Jefferson and Adams were wary of priests in all forms, as they both knew theocracies are enemies of democracy. Jefferson pointed out that the Indians shared their wariness:

Wechsler and the New York Times showed that Adams' two immediate successors as president, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as well as many others, regarded Adams' political censorship of 'seditious' newspapers that criticised the state as a clear breach of the First Amendment and an attack on democracy.

Adams chuckled. "The evenings are always nice. The Weather boys don't let it rain until later on, when everyone's asleep.

Good man, Thorne, thought Adams.

Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.

Do not, therefore, regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?