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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. » John Quincy Adams
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation. » 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
[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation. » John Quincy Adams
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try. » John Quincy Adams
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. » John Quincy Adams
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. » John Quincy Adams
A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair. » John Quincy Adams
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. » John Quincy Adams
May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. » John Quincy Adams
Duty is ours, results are God’s. » John Quincy Adams
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind. » John Quincy Adams
Individual liberty is individual power. » 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 infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world. » John Quincy Adams
To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. » John Quincy Adams
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war. » John Quincy Adams
America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own. » John Quincy Adams
We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME. » John Quincy Adams
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. » John Quincy Adams
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws. » John Quincy Adams
Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. » John Quincy Adams
The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. » John Quincy Adams
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. » John Quincy Adams
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. » 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, virtuous, or happy. » John Quincy Adams
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
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. » John Quincy Adams
We know the redemption must come. » John Quincy Adams
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible. » John Quincy Adams
My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away… the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God. » John Quincy Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. » John Quincy Adams
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. » John Quincy Adams
Whoever tells the best story wins. » John Quincy Adams
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future. » John Quincy Adams
A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering. » John Quincy Adams
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair. » John Quincy Adams
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals. » John Quincy Adams
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence. » John Quincy Adams
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth. » John Quincy Adams
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. » John Quincy Adams
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. » John Quincy Adams
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth. » John Quincy Adams
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. » John Quincy Adams
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong. » John Quincy Adams
All that I am my mother made me. » John Quincy Adams
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! » John Quincy Adams
Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people. » John Quincy Adams
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. » John Quincy Adams
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. » 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 and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind. » John Quincy Adams
We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were. » John Quincy Adams
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not. » John Quincy Adams
The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency. » John Quincy Adams
The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God » John Quincy Adams
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. » John Quincy Adams
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?. » John Quincy Adams
I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere. » John Quincy Adams
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 they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. » John Quincy Adams
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. » John Quincy Adams
America… goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. » John Quincy Adams
The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ. » John Quincy Adams
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d! » John Quincy Adams
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
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth. » John Quincy Adams
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. » John Quincy Adams
Westward the star of empire takes its way. » 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 something worse. » John Quincy Adams
I told him that I thought it was law logic – an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else. » John Quincy Adams
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions. » John Quincy Adams
The freedom of the press should be inviolate. » John Quincy Adams