Джон Адамс цитаты

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You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.
Из письма к Томасу Джефферсону (1813)

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
Discourses on Davila (1790)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
Ch. 1 Marchamont Nedham : The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/v1ch16s15.html (1787)

Thomas — Jefferson — still surv —
The Oxford History of the American People (1965) by Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 420; Последние слова Джона Адамса; Возможно последнее слово было сказано не до конца; На самом деле Джефферсон умер на несколько часов раньше.

When annual elections end, there slavery begins.
Thoughts on Government (1776)

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Из заметок к речи в Брейнтри (Массачусетс) (Весна 1772)

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Из письма к Эбигейл Адамс (17 июля 1775)

As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset : From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431
Attributed

Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 January 1789), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
1780s

1770s, Boston Massacre trial (1770)
Контексте: It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

Adams as portrayed in the musical 1776 (1969); this has sometimes been cited as an actual quote of Adams.
Misattributed

Letter LV: Conclusion http://www.constitution.org/jadams/ja1_55.htm
1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

John Adams: John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL; Du Ryer, André, ca. 1580-ca. 1660, tr; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner, "[ 2013-05-01 http://ia700200.us.archive.org/4/items/korancommonlycal00john/korancommonlycal00john.pdf, The Koran : commonly called the Alcoran of Mahomet (1806)]," Springfield [Mass.] : Printed by Henry Brewer, for Isaiah Thomas, Jun.
1770s

(26 July 1796).
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)

Autobiography (1802–1807)
1800s

1790s, Inaugural Address (Saturday, March 4, 1797)

As quoted in Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), by William A. DeGregorio, pp. 19–20

No. 7; this was incorporated into the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780
1770s, Novanglus essays (1774–1775)

Reply to an invitation to 50th Independence Day celebrations from a committee of the citizens of Quincy, Massachusetts (7 June 1826); quoted in "Eulogy, Pronounced at Bridgewater, Massachusetts" http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC02570179&id=17ge0_OSAfIC&pg=RA1-PA160&lpg=RA1-PA160&dq=%22solemn+services+of+that+day+on+which+will+be+completed+%22&num=100 (2 August 1826) by John A. Shaw, in A Selection of Eulogies, Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (1826) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18196/18196.txt
1820s

This is attributed to Adams in The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) by Henry Stephens Randall, p. 587
1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

1810s, Letter to William Tudor (1818)

Letter to Edmund Jenings, 27 September 1782 http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-13-02-0217, also quoted in John Adams (2008) by David McCullough, p. 272
1780s

These were times, my friend, in Boston, which tried women's souls as well as men's.
Letter http://www.readme.it/libri/Letteratura%20Inglese/SELECTIONS%20FROM%20ADAM'S%20CORRESSPONDENCE.shtml to Benjamin Rush (12 April 1809)
1800s

26 April 1779
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)

(18 February 1756)
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)
Контексте: Spent an hour in the beginning of the evening at Major Gardiner's, where it was thought that the design of Christianity was not to make men good riddle-solvers, or good mystery-mongers, but good men, good magistrates, and good subjects, good husbands and good wives, good parents and good children, good masters and good servants. The following questions may be answered some time or other, namely, — Where do we find a precept in the Gospel requiring Ecclesiastical Synods? Convocations? Councils? Decrees? Creeds? Confessions? Oaths? Subscriptions? and whole cart-loads of other trumpery that we find religion incumbered with in these days?

1810s, Letter to William Tudor (1818)

Vol. I, Preface, p. xi
1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

Attributed to Adams in A Brief History of Disbelief BBC Four (2005) by Jonathan Miller, Online video http://www.veoh.com/series/briefhistoryofdisbelief. The two sentences are derived from two different letters to Thomas Jefferson, written five years apart, juxtaposed to give a misleading impression of Adams' meaning. The first comes from his letter of 17 January 1820, and the second from his letter of 22 January 1825.
Misattributed

14 November 1760
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)

4 August 1796
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)

Letter http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=L17770316ja to Abigail Adams (16 March 1777)
1770s

Letter to Abigail Adams http://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2785&context=cklawreview (19 October 1775). Reprinted in I ADAMS FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE 318 (L. Butterfield ed. 1963).
1770s

Adams as portrayed in the HBO Miniseries John Adams (2008); this has sometimes been cited as having been actually said or written by the historical John Adams.
Misattributed

9 February 1779
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)