John Adams Quotes about Peace

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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

John Adams

Peace, War, 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”

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

John Adams

Strength, Peace, Tyrants

John Adams (1794). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778”, p.385

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

John Adams

Strength, Peace, Patriotic

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

John Adams

Peace, Real, War

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams

Peace, War, History

John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

John Adams

Peace, War

Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

John Adams

Peace, Ignorance, Men