John Adams Quotes about History

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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

John Adams

Freedom, Patriotic, History

Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.173, UPNE

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams

Peace, War, History

John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

Country, Men, History

John Adams (1841). “Letters, Addressed to His Wife”, p.133