John Adams, our second president served from 1797-1801. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the first president to occupy the White House and the father of the 6th president of the United States. He was born in 1735 in Braintree, MA. He attended Harvard at the age of 16 and was affiliated with the Federalist Party.
~Quotes:
"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom"
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak and write"
"A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition"
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under it's leader, and concerning measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution"
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