All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or... →
John Adams
Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or... →
Patch Adams
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to... →
Samuel Adams
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience... →
William Adams
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are... →
Joseph Addison
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the... →
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.