John Adams/presidency - 1797-1801

Famous quotes containing the words john adams, john, adams and/or presidency:

    “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
    —John Adams (1735–1826)

    “The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism.”
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

    “Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)