John Adams Quotes about Revolution

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My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

John Adams

Religion, Revolution

This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!

John Adams

Animal, Revolution, Animal Rights

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

John Adams

Ambition, Office, Revolution

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

John Adams

Government, People, Revolution

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of”, p.399

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

John Adams

Law, Might, Revolution

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.374

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

John Adams

Writing, Revolution, Obnoxious

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.514

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

John Adams

Revolution, Unexpected, Midst

John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.223

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

John Adams

Liberty, Revolution, Unexpected

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.391

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

John Adams

Together, Revolution, Three

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography”, p.511