Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise,… — 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
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
There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth. — 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
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless… — 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
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The… — 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
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management… — 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
