John Adams Quote

Quote from John Adams,

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."

By:	John Adams (more quotes by John Adams or books by/about John Adams)
	(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source:	Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
Categories:	Founder, Courage, Inspiration, Honor, Justice, Prosperity, Ambition, Virtue, Knowledge, Self-Determination
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