John Quincy Adams on courage
John Quincy Adams44 quotes“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Be a great speaker, become a leader.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Virtue is not always amiable.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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