President Adams

President Adams may refer to one of the following Presidents of the United States:

  • John Adams (1735–1826), 2nd U.S. President, 1797–1801
  • John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), his son, 6th U.S. President, 1825–1829

Famous quotes containing the words president and/or adams:

    We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
    Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)

    ... whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining absolute power over wives. But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken—and notwithstanding all your wise Laws and Maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our Masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet ...
    —Abigail Adams (1744–1818)