John Quincy Adams Quotes
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.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
John Quincy AdamsJohn 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 AdamsJohn Quincy Adams You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams