John Quincy Adams Quotes
Virtue is not always amiable.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
John Quincy AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Go on and improve in everything worthy.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
John Quincy AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
John Quincy AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
John Quincy AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
John Quincy AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams A 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.
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