John Quincy Adams

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

— John Quincy Adams

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

— John Quincy Adams

All that I am my mother made me.

— John Quincy Adams

Individual liberty is individual power.

— John Quincy Adams

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

— John Quincy Adams

Whoever tells the best story wins.

— John Quincy Adams

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

— John Quincy Adams

This is the last of earth! I am content.

— 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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

— John Quincy Adams

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

— John Quincy Adams

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

— John Quincy Adams

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

— John 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 Adams

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

— John Quincy Adams

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

I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee…

— John Quincy Adams

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the…

— 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…

— John Quincy Adams

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I…

— John Quincy Adams

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself…

— John Quincy Adams

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace,…

— John Quincy Adams

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful…

— John Quincy Adams

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life…

— John Quincy Adams

The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the…

— John Quincy Adams

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

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.…

— John Quincy Adams

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and…

— John Quincy Adams

The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the…

— John Quincy Adams

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

However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its…

— John Quincy Adams

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

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .…

— John Quincy Adams

“If slavery be the destined sword of the hand of the destroying angel which is to sever the ties of this Union,…

— John Quincy Adams

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually…

— John Quincy Adams

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion…

— John Quincy Adams

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

The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope…

— John Quincy Adams

Duty is ours, results are God's.

— John Quincy Adams

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

— John Quincy Adams