I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year. - John Adams

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

John Adams

I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

Annual, Political, Sending, Term Limits, Terms, Years

Same Author Quotes

The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

Handwriting, People, Read, Thing

It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

4Th Of July, Celebrated, Continent, Illumination, Parades, Pomp

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Freedom, Inspirational, Liberty, Maxim, Power, War

We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

God, Greatness, Heart, Ignorance, Large

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

Consumption, Hemp, Marijuana, Weed, World

Similar Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

Brightness, Clouds, Hides, Misery, Moon, Passes

George Bernard Shaw

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

Operations, Patient, Trifling, Word, Writing

Francis Bacon

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Men, Religion, Sects, Things, Vicissitudes

Philip Kitcher

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

Know, Philosophy, Play, Role, Thinking, Way

Gary L. Francione

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

Beings, Matter, Please, Vegan, Violence