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John Adams Quotes about Virtue

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

"What The Founding Fathers Said About Success Will Change Your Approach To Life", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2013.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

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.116, UPNE

Virtue is not always amiable.

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.188

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

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.58, UPNE

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

John Adams (1841). “Letters, Addressed to His Wife”, p.277

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor, Gregg L. Lint (1989). “Papers of John Adams”