The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
John Adams 

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
John Adams

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.
John Adams

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.
John Adams

A man ought to avow his opinions and defend them with boldness.
John Adams

I want to see my wife and children every day, I want to see my grass and blossoms and corn ... But above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
John Adams