John Quincy Adams was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States. Profoundly inspirational John Quincy Adams quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous John Quincy Adams Quotes
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 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
May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right 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 better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us John Quincy Adams
The nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation 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
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others 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 Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity John Quincy Adams
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader 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 so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality 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 the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible 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
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded John Quincy Adams
The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency 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 is summed up obedience to His will 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 more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear 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
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try 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
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? 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
From the experience of the past, we derive instructive lessons for the future 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 enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation 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
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet 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
I believe in the rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation John Quincy Adams
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel 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 as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator John Quincy Adams Quotes
Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic 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
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us 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
Duty is ours, results are God’s 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
Individual liberty is individual power 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
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality 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
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
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy She is the well wisher to freedom and independence of all She is the champion and vindicator only of her own Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however John Quincy Adams Quotes
America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own John Quincy Adams
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it 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 other sentiment or thought 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
