Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 481 |
| AUTHOR: | John Adams (1735–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.—I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | This letter has not been dated precisely, but appears to have been written after Adams’s letter to his wife on May 12, and before one written to her on May 15. |
| SUBJECTS: | Education |