John Adams Quotes about Politics

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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

John Adams

Principles, Politics, Stand Alone

"Who is Bernie Sanders?" by Tom Pappalardo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

John Adams

Political, Labyrinth, Politics

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

John Adams

Country, Political, Politics

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

John Adams

Political, Mind, Politics

Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

John Adams

Writing, Political, Politics

John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.244, Penguin

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

John Adams

Heaven, Politics, Stealing

John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.230, Regnery Publishing

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

John Adams

August, Political, Politics