John Adams Quotes about Evil

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Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

John Adams

Evil, Slavery, Magnitude

John Adams (1997). “Rivoluzioni e Costituzioni”, p.37, Guida Editori

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

John Adams

Law, Ideas, Evil

"John Adams: Quotes & Facts". Book by Blago Kirov, 2016.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

John Adams

Evil, Madness, Folly

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it.

John Adams

Evil, Slavery, Territory

Letter to William Tudor, Jr., founders.archives.gov. November 20, 1819.