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John Adams Quotes taken from his own letters and speeches. John Adams was a leader of the Revolutionary War who eventually became the second President of the United States. Our John Adams Quotes are listed in chronological order. This page contains quotes from 1776, most are from letters he wrote to other Revolutionary War era figures such as General Horatio Gates, George Wythe - a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Patrick Henry, Mercy Otis Warren and his wife Abagail Adams. In these quotes, he talks about the importance of education, religion, elections and being governed by local bodies. There are links to more John Adams Quotes before and after 1776 at the bottom
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"I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all"
"The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best"
The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803. The French controlled this region from 1699 until 1762 when it became Spanish property because France gave it to Spain as a present, since they were allies. But under Napoleon Bonaparte, France revived the aspirations to build an empire in North America so the territory was taken back in 1800. However, those big plans were not meant to be because Napoleon needed to concentrate on preparations for war with the British Empire and so the land was sold to the United States. The price was 15 million dollars.
The purchased territory included the whole of today’s Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, parts of Minnesota and Louisiana west of Mississippi River, including New Orleans, big parts of North and northeastern New Mexico, South Dakota, northern Texas, some parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado as well as portions of Canadian provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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To spread its culture and government across the entire continent, Americans believe they had the right to do this because they believed God wanted them to do it.
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Peninsulares - People born in Spain who could hold the highest offices in the New World. Creoles - Spanish people who were born in the New World. Along with the Peninsulares, they controlled most of the wealth. Mestizos - People of European and Native American ancestry.
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