John Adams - A Tribute

[luterano1517]

JOHN ADAMS IS THE GREATEST FOUNDING FATHER!!!!!!

[dumbtrooper]

its the quaker dude lol from cereal boxes XD

[Iam4armalitem15]

BARE ARMS! THE SECOND REVOLUTIONS IS COMING NOT OF PERSECUTION BUT OF FARCE LIES OF THE GOV'T WE ELECTED TO ENDURE OUR FREEDOMS HAS LIED TO US. Bare arms!

[biped19]

After being bombarded on TV with "prince" william and his new whore bride to be, I needed a 1776 palate cleansing.

[EmptyBottleTherapies]

"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it."

- John Adams

[EmptyBottleTherapies]

"Indepedence Forever!" - John Adams

[TheRomanBond007]

How absolutely coincidential that he and Thomas Jefferson died the same day.

[HANNAHMONTANAFREAK4]

John Adams was one of my favorite presidents. We are learning about his life in depth and watching John Adams from HBO in class. I am hooked to it and bought it on DVD just so i could watch it. He inspired the Declaration of Independence and believed in liberty and justice. John Adams was the most influential founding father in my belief.

[oliverarado]

One of the best themes ever

[TheLizardKing1967]

Excellent video. Too bad OBAMA baby is in the White House now. Our founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they knew what has happened to our country.

[timcp1]

" The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were. . . . the general principles of Christianity."-John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813. John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856), Vol. X, pp. 45-46

[StevoDog21]

Being a good and principled man, his idea of the general principles of Christianity were good and principled.

However, the Puritans certainly believed they were upholding the "general principles of Christianity" when they hanged people for being "witches", as did all the other varieties of Christianity when they suppressed, oppressed, and persecuted other "Christians" in their area of control. Good men are good whatever their religious beliefs - and it's not their religion that makes them good.

[timcp1]

@StevoDog21 Unless if those people used to steal, lie and cheat, and then after fallowing their faith, they refrain from condoning those things. That's the point of Christianity salvation in the redemption before God one receives when you confess Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised Jesus from the dead, then the person will be saved. Most people after truly confessing this turn or repent from their past sins. I know I have and much of the Founders shared the same faith.

[StevoDog21]

@timcp1

If I believed that Christians steal, lie, and cheat less than non-Christians, or that "most people after truly confessing this turn or repent from their past sins", then I'd say you might have a point.

In my nearly half-century life, and study of human history, I have seen no evidence to support such a notion.

[timcp1]

@StevoDog21 Because Jesus Christ walked a perfect life, you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised Jesus form the dead then you are saved. But after this repentance may not be 100% but when you stand before God on judgment day, because you accepted the free gift of forgiveness in Jesus Christ you will enter heaven. In they eyes of God you are then as perfect as Jesus was when he walked the earth. Through the life sacrificed by Christ, that's how man and woman are saved.

[LatinLeo86]

john Adams is the Icon of the Constitution, he was the only Founding father that did not own slaves and kept to the true beliefs that everyman is equal under their creator.

[Hissanrach]

The truest of the true are often forgotten; their contributions taken for granted.

[Stardweller1]

@Hissanrach Well, then, let's make use of every opportunity to give credit to John Adams and all the rest of the under-credited.

[skagerak123]

A deeply fascinating man, one of few statesmen with the highest amount of integrity. His legacy remains in the shadows; his victory is spelled in unknown waters.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

@skagerak123 YES! Integrity that's what makes me respect him and his wife beyond words. He stuck to his morals and did not let ANYONE change him even if they were unpopular (like slavery). If it's someone of that time I thank for their service, it's the Adams 1000%.

[skagerak123]

@bubblinbrownsugar616 Well spoken! I think the HBO mini-series served to illuminate posterity of his great character, and to do justice to his legacy.

[LatinTaco4u]

@Doc418

Why would u compare John Adams to that Turd OBAMA? U critize one of the Founding father that was responsible for the Declaration of Indepence? What Kind of Turd are u?

He had to do what was necessary at the time THEY JUST FOUGHT BRITAIN THOUSAND HAVE DIED. Do u think he just gonna sit there and let the country get divided?

WTF is wrong with America these day, yall idolize TURD and critize the people that was responsible for the birth of AMERICA?

This is just fucking sad!

[Doc418]

It would be nice to have John Adams back in the white house again. And the good thing about that is, if you disagree with Mr. Adams, he would have you prosecuted for seditious libel. That is how great John Adams was.

Really, learn some history you fucking douchebag, the founders were just as human and imperfect as Obama is.

[canadarox14]

Am I the only person who thinks John Adams looks really friendly in some of those portraits? He looks like he's trying really hard not to smile in a few. I like it. (Not the last portrait, of course. In that one he looks ready to kill somebody.)

[GettysburgGhost1863]

Yeah, Adams always seemed like a really nice guy to me. I think I'd get along with him, but maybe that's just because I'm distantly related to him.

[aslynelf]

@canadarox14 I think old age does that to you. You try looking great and happy when you're 90.

[canadarox14]

@aslynelf True that. But, for the record, I wasn't trying to disrespect John Adams. I really respect the guy. He just looks grumpy now and again :)

[canadarox14]

Good for you! I couldn't get through it, but I'm not American so I don't feel too bad.

[ExperimentalDesigns]

That's great hey we need more schools in this nation like yours. I recommend 5000 year leap when you have the time. Federalist papers is not a bad read either. Nice to see someone knowing their history.

[ACDCfans12]

my favorite orchestral peice there is

[thedemoboy]

The "Presidency" was still new and untried. Except for the Alien and Sedition Act (which I agree was a very poor choice), there wasn't much about Adams' term that went terribly.

[iyequertu54]

most underrated founding father and president

[IrisMG]

His daughter Nabby looked just like him. His son John Quincy, not so much. Manny, great slideshow, but it was a little fuzzy in spots. Might work on your focus in some of the scenes.

[ExperimentalDesigns]

Unfortunately not too many Americans know about men like John Adams or the Constitution and what was done to make it possible. It is not taught in schools anymore and everyday America becomes lesser of what the forefathers intended. Remember the Constitution. Remember those who shed their blood for liberty. Remember those who sarcificed so much. Remember them all.

[iakny]

John Adams' presidency was sandwiched between Washington's and Jefferson's. Most people forget to mention him when speaking about the founding fathers. I had a kid in my high school, taking U.S. History, who thought that Abe Lincoln was one of the founding fathers.

[azrael8585]

It seems like just yesterday that we were learning every President in order and their time in office and their VP.

My sister says they have already stopped teaching it in ten short yrs. And this is a conservative school in the rurals.

When I was 14 we had to read and learn The Constitution and the Declaration of Independance.

Now it appears that all they did for us is of little matter these days.

And who do we thank for that?

[asierra1492]

You think the government wants people to learn that the american revolution was about individual libertys which by default mean a severely restricted and limited government. But since the government controls education they wont teach young americans that.

[oddrikku12]

His victory was a silent one. In his term of office, he avoided an entirely unneeded war. His whole life summed up to be something more then most men ever experienced. While other men did great things that, with all due respect, were glorified and popularized. Without Adams, I can confidently say that the Continental Congress would have never gotten anywhere.

What's more annoying yet is modern youth's idea of 'love'. Take one look at the life of Abigail and John Adams. That's love.

[smoky90210]

America wouldnt be what it is without him.

[Challenger305]

Yea, John Adams kept up the pressure on the continental congress and was finally able to convince them as a whole that they needed to unanimously agree on the Declaration of Independence.

The John Adams hbo serious depicted this awesomely. John Adams was the man!

[iakny]

He was the primary founding father, in my opinion.

[Hissanrach]

@oddrikku12 When you do something right, people won't be sure you did anything at all ;)

[lcola50]

He's considered a bad president by todays politicans, and news like CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox. We should clown John Adams so we can get a real president to fix this country instead of a Masiah, or Mavrick!

[paperfacets]

The theme to the HBO series is the best and your video fit it well.

[nyy4288]

Make John Adams a beer!

[Victori379]

Adams '08!

[bugsarecool19]

John Adams is the best president there ever was, and ever will be.

[cmn1108]

John Adams is perhaps my favorite founding father. I don't understand why people judge him as a bad president - he set many of the precedents of our government, founded our navy, kept us out of an unnecessary war with France that we were unprepared for. If he could run an infant nation faced with problems on all fronts two hundred years ago, he could certainly be a competent president today.

Therefore: Adams '08.

[Stardweller1]

@cmn1108 I feel a need to mention that he did do something that I think was a mistake: the Alien Sedition Act. However, you're absolutely right. Of all the Founding Fathers, he was probably among the most principled. And, like you, he's definitely my favorite.

[leiter222]

It is Mr. Adams to you and I...you should feel honored that this man existed to pave the way for what we take for granted now. Seriously. To John and Abigail.

[goingtoshopping]

I`ve enjoyed all of your videos. Thanks a lot.

[HauensteinCenter]

Great work! I love the Adams theme.