top of page
Quote_1.png
John Adams

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

Standard 
 Customized
"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

Exlpore more Heart quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I'm a nudist at heart."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The ear is the avenue to the heart."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

Explore more quotes by John Adams

Quote_1.png
John Adams
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"In politics the middle way is none at all."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
Quote_1.png
John Adams
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
bottom of page