Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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 ADAMSThough it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGo on and improve in everything worthy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSDemocracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAbove all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSOccasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSFrom the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSA desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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 ADAMSMove or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPower 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 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 ADAMSWhere annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS