The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
“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… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
“It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
