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Country Quotes by John Quincy Adams

11 Country quotes by John Quincy Adams

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John Quincy Adams offers a handful of pointed thoughts on the idea of a country, each revealing his diplomatic experience and early‑American perspective. Though brief, these eleven lines give a clear sense of how he weighed national identity against governance.

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I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their…

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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the…

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

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A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

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I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native…

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The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers…

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So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be…

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I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman…

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Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will…

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

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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…

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...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,…

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A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

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There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

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The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

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Whoever tells the best story wins.

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Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

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The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

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“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…

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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the…

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

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“It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or…

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Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves,…

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