Frases célebres de John Adams
Original: «But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever».
Fuente: Citado en Kirov, Blago. John Adams: Quotes & Facts. Editor Blago Kirov, 2016. ISBN 9788892577947
Fuente: Carta a Abigail Adams, 17 de julio de 1775.
Notas para una oración en Braintree, primavera de 1772.
Original: «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».
Fuente: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Editor Elizabeth M. Knowles. Colaborador Elizabeth M. Knowles. Edición revisada. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780198601739. p. 3.
Original: «There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight».
Fuente: Adams, John. The Letters of John and Abigail Adams. Editor Simon and Schuster, 2012. ISBN 9781625584427.
Fuente: Carta a Abigail Adams, 17 de mayo de 1776.
Original: «But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six—the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace».
Fuente: Adams, John. The works of John Adams, second President of the United States. Volume 1. Editor Best Books on, 1856. ISBN 9781623764623. p. 176.
Fuente: Carta a Abigail Adams, 17 de julio de 1775.
Original: «Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies».
Fuente: Adams, John. The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811. Editorial Jazzybee Verlag, 2015. ISBN 9783849648251.
Fuente: Carta a Zabdiel Adams, 21 de junio de 1776.
John Adams Frases y Citas
Original: «Human nature with all its infirmities and depravation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and goodness, which we have reason to believe, appear as respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences. 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».
Fuente: Carta a Abigail Adams, 29 de octubre de 1775.
Original: «The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this—it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity».
Fuente: Aikman, David. One Nation without God?: The Battle for Christianity in an Age of Unbelief. Editorial Baker Books, 2012. ISBN 9781441235848. https://books.google.es/books?id=vovlWkHq56cC&pg=PT52&dq=The+highest,+the+transcendent+glory+of+the+American+Revolution+was+this%E2%80%94it+connected,+in+one+indissoluble+bond,+the+principles+of+civil+government+with+the+precepts+of+Christianity.+I&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf3YzK2uXfAhUJ_BQKHfFkDfMQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20highest%2C%20the%20transcendent%20glory%20of%20the%20American%20Revolution%20was%20this%E2%80%94it%20connected%2C%20in%20one%20indissoluble%20bond%2C%20the%20principles%20of%20civil%20government%20with%20the%20precepts%20of%20Christianity.%20I&f=false
“Hay dos formas de conquistar y esclavizar a una nación. Una es la espada, la otra es la deuda.”
Fuente: Soriano Llobera, Juan M. Prensa económica, ¿Ángel o demonio?, de la democracia a la actualidad. Editorial Bibliolibrary Editorial, 2012. ISBN 9788493949228. p. 108.
“Estoy de acuerdo con usted en que en la política la vía del medio es ninguna.”
Original: «I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all».
Fuente: Adams, John. The works of John Adams, second President of the United States. Volume 1. Editor Best Books on, 1856. ISBN 9781623764623. p. 206.
Fuente: Carta a Horatio Gates, 23 de marzo de 1776.
Original: «Tis impossible to judge with much Precision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected».
Fuente: Adams, John. The Works of John Adams Vol. 2. Editorial Jazzybee Verlag. ISBN 9783849693831. p. 43.
Fuente: Carta a Jonathan Sewall, octubre de 1759.
John Adams: Frases en inglés
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820). Often misquoted as "God is an essence that we know nothing of" and attached to a part of his 22 January 1825 letter to Thomas Jefferson.
1820s
Concerning an interview in London with the ambassador from Tripoli, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja.
1780s, Letter to John Jay (1786)
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
Letter to Josiah Quincy (9 February 1811), Quincy. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/adams-the-works-of-john-adams-vol-9-letters-and-state-papers-1799-1811
1810s
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
Abigail Adams, his wife, in a letter to John Thaxter (1778-09-29).
Misattributed
Presidential proclamation of a national day of fasting and prayer (6 March 1799)
1790s
Letter to Thomas Jefferson https://books.google.com/books?id=YoljDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2942&lpg=PT2942&dq=%22While+all+other+Sciences+have+advanced,+that+of+Government+is+at+a+stand;+little+better+understood;+little+better+practiced+now+than+three+or+four+thousand+years+ago.%22&source=bl&ots=f42QS5YwAW&sig=nLqK0ZV3MRiT7r74EJm4ybMrLjo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQn7T-po7eAhWvd98KHcD_CggQ6AEwA3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22While%20all%20other%20Sciences%20have%20advanced%2C%20that%20of%20Government%20is%20at%20a%20stand%3B%20little%20better%20understood%3B%20little%20better%20practiced%20now%20than%20three%20or%20four%20thousand%20years%20ago.%22&f=false (9 July 1813)
1810s
Adams used this statement in a letter to Benjamin Waterhouse (21 May 1821), but he may have been quoting the poem "To Mr. Stuart, On his Portrait of Mrs. M" by Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, first published in 1803:
: Genius is sorrow's child — to want allied —
Consoled by glory, and sustained by pride.
Misattributed
Fuente: 1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787), Ch. 1 Marchamont Nedham : The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined"
1770s, Boston Massacre trial (1770)
In Adams' Argument for the Defense in the case of Rex v. Wemms: Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, 3-4 December, 1770; source "The Adams Papers", http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
1770s
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
22 February 1756
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)
Letter to Jonathan Sewall (October 1759)
1750s
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
John Adams letter to John Taylor, Of Caroline, Quincy, (12 March, 1819)
1810s, Letter to John Taylor (1819)
