Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. – 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
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams
The liberals think government exists to fix whats wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe theres nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom wont cure. – Rick Perry
I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will