- Born
- Died
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Biography (1987). He was married to Abigail Adams. He died on July 4, 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpousesAbigail Adams(October 25, 1764 - October 28, 1818) (her death, 4 children)Abigail Adams(October 25, 1764 - October 28, 1818) (her death, 6 children)
- Children
- On November 2, 1800, he wrote to Abigail, "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men rule under this roof." Those words were carved into the mantelpiece of the State Dining Room of the White House and are still there.
- On 30 October 1825, he became the first former US president to reach the age of 90. He remained the only one to have done so until Herbert Hoover reached that age on 10 August 1964.
- Second president of the United States, 4 March 1797-4 March 1801.
- Was the first Vice-President.
- Father of John Quincy Adams, who was president when he died.
- Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
- But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
- No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
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