“John Adams” quotes
(2008)
Title John Adams
Year 2008
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Year 2008
Genre Drama, History, Biography
All actors – Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett, Stephen Dillane, Sarah Polley, Samuel Barnett, David Morse, Andrew Scott, Danny Huston, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Steven Hinkle, Madeline Taylor
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“I have long learned, that a man may give offense, and he may still succeed!”
“Fish and guests stink after three days.”
“It is no small thing to build a new world, gentlemen. We have our republic. We must endeavour to keep it, if we can.”
“I have looked for our rights in the laws of nature and can find them only in the laws of political society. I have looked for our rights in the constitution of the English government and found them there! Our rights have been violated.”
“My thoughts are so clear to me... each one takes perfect shape within my mind. But when I speak, when I offer them to others, they seem to lose all definition.”
“Half-fed slaves building our nation's Capitol. What possible good can come from such a place?”
“You cannot protect the nation by attacking the right of every man to speak freely without fear.”
“War is never inevitable.”
“Our constitution has many good articles, and some bad ones. I do not know yet which predominate.”
“The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.”
“Facts are very stubborn things.”
“- Timothy Pickering: Why on Earth would you disband the army when we are preparing for war?
- John Adams: Why on Earth do we need an army when we are preparing for peace?”“If you explode the possibility of peace, Mr. Adams, and I tell you now, you will have blood on your hands!”
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