Famous Quotes

"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

John Adams on Hope

More quotes about Hope

• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

  Albert Einstein on Hope

• "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Hope

• "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Hope

• "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

  Maya Angelou on Hope

• "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

  Dalai Lama on Hope

More quotes by John Adams

• "Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

• "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

• "Fear is the foundation of most governments."

• "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."

• "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."