There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. – John Adams

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. – John Adams
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. – John Adams
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own…. It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism. – James Gleick, 1993