John Adams Quotes
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Adams, John. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States. Edited by Charles Francis Adams, vol. 10, Little, Brown and Company, 1856, p. 377.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
George W. Bush had told the country that the reason for the Iraq War was that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction. After the invasion it was determined that there were no such weapons that had justified the war. Debate since has concentrated in whether the Bush administration had pressured the intelligence experts to provide the information they wanted to justify the war or whether the administration was misled by their intelligence agencies.
In December of 1940 President Roosevelt delivered a Fireside Chat calling for full aid to Britain. The senator described it as:
John Adams Jr. was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, and he served as the first vice president of the United States. Adams was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with many important figures in early American history, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
