Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAbove all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGo on and improve in everything worthy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI 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 ADAMSIf conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSThe will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTry and fail, but don’t fail to try.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSThus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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 ADAMSNo man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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 ADAMS