My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? – John Adams
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. – John Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams