A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power;… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes… — 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
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the… — 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
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands 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
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 natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — 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
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
From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of… — 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
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden… — 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
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