If 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 ADAMSYou will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
-
-
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 -
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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 -
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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 -
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 -
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 -
Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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