When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. — 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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image