John Adams Coloring Page
On this day, October 30th, 290 years ago, the second president of the United States was born. And to celebrate, I’m sharing the John Adams coloring page from my Quotes of the US Presidents: In Their Own Words.
It features John Adam’s wise words regarding our government:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
He was right. We are seeing the results even now of what happens when immoral and irreligious people are charged with abiding by, interpreting, or safeguarding the Constitution. And it isn’t pretty!
Adams had many other pithy things to say about philosophy, wisdom, and government. Here are a few of my favorites:
- “The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.”
- “Among all the disappointments and perplexities which have fallen my share in life, nothing has contributed so much to support my mind as the choice blessing of a wife…”
- “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
- “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
- “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
- “The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know…Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”
- “I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”
- “To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
More to Color
If you’d like more presidential quote coloring pages like this one, grab a copy of In Their Own Words, the newest digital collection in our online resource shop.
Or maybe you’d prefer a bound volume. If so, check out my devotional journals. The one in the center of the lineup below, God Bless America, was made just for patriotic citizens like you.
Packed with inspiring thoughts from our founding fathers and other great Americans, this journal will inspire you to think deeply about what it means to be a citizen of this great country. What is our responsibility to the rest of the world? How do we ensure the guiding principles on which our nation was established are never forgotten?
Consider how you feel about these matters and use the space provided to write down your thoughts, respond to the writing prompts, complete the word studies, and color in the Americana artwork. All these elements have been carefully curated for folk who love the USA and long to see her restored to her original splendor.
