John Quincy Adams

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against…

— John Quincy Adams

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any…

— John Quincy Adams

All that I am my mother made me.

— John Quincy Adams

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

— John Quincy Adams

I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes…

— 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

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good…

— John Quincy Adams

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice,…

— John Quincy Adams

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must…

— John Quincy Adams

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but…

— John Quincy Adams

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield:…

— John Quincy Adams

To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to…

— 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

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

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could…

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or…

— John Quincy Adams

The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as…

— John Quincy Adams

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

— John Quincy Adams

“No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by…

— John Quincy Adams