Virtue is not always amiable.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
-
-
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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 -
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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 -
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
To 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 -
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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 -
Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS