John Quincy Adams Quotes

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• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. Action
• Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. Aging
• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. Adversity
• The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. American
• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. Abroad
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. All
• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. Any
• Where annual elections end where slavery begins. Annual
• So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that… Begin
• America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own. America
• Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise,… Bound
• From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The… Acknowledge
• ...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, perpetual… All
• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. Attention
• His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. Body
• Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most… Community
• The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. Bind
• Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. Civil
• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows… Abroad
• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… Attempt

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