Essential Quotes

Patrick Henry

It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.

Abigail Adams

Letter to JohnQuincy Adams, 1783

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams, 1784

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

John Adams

Defense of the Constitutions — 1787

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

John Adams

Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law — 1756

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

Samuel Adams

Letter to James Warren — 1775

No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

Samuel Adams

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Charles Carroll

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure which ensures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.

Jim Elliott

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Benjamin Franklin

Men will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Noah Webster

Education is useless without the Bible.