Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSDefeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSLiberty, once lost, is lost forever.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf 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 ADAMSBe a great speaker, become a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSDemocracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSYou will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSRoll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIt is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSA politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS