John Quincy Adams

This is the last of earth! I am content.

— John Quincy Adams

Whoever tells the best story wins.

— John Quincy Adams

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

— John Quincy Adams

All that I am my mother made me.

— John Quincy Adams

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

— John Quincy Adams

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

— John Quincy Adams

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

— John Quincy Adams

Individual liberty is individual power.

— John Quincy Adams

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is…

— John Quincy Adams

It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

— John Quincy Adams

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

— John Quincy Adams

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

— John Quincy Adams

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

— John Quincy Adams

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

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

— John Quincy Adams

“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”

— John Quincy Adams

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

— John Quincy Adams

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man…

— John Quincy Adams

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

I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere…

— John Quincy Adams

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful…

— John Quincy Adams

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place…

— John Quincy Adams

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

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

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue…

— John Quincy Adams

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

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

— John Quincy Adams

It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great…

— John Quincy Adams

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

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

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

Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

— John Quincy Adams

Duty is ours, results are God's.

— John Quincy Adams