Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTry and fail, but don’t fail to try.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
-
-
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
It 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 ADAMS -
America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
JOHN 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 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 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 ADAMS -
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS