5 Quotes by John Adams about revolution

  • Author John Adams
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    We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

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  • Author John Adams
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    During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

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  • Author John Adams
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    We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

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  • Author John Adams
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    I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

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