Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. – John Adams
I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. – John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy…. – John Adams
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams