Adams

Famous quotes containing the word adams:

    Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination—everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
    —John Adams (1735–1826)

    America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have lived in a cave and worn skins.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
    —Gerry Adams (b. 1948)