John Adams1735–1826The quotations of
John Adams
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801
1735–1826
34 quotes, most often on Government, Slavery and America. Part of the U.S. Presidents and Founding Fathers collections.
- Letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776), published in The Adams Papers: Adams Family Correspondence (2007) edited by Margaret A. Hogan
- Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, 11 October 1798, in Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull (New York, 1848), pp 265-6
I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country.
Letter to Louisa Catherine Adams (13 January 1820)
