John Quincy Adams quotes

Born
July 11, 1767 Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America.

Died
February 23, 1848.

Occupation
President, diplomat.

John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator, United States Senator, U.S. Representative.

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

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

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 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 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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
– 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

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

From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
– John Quincy Adams

It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
– John Quincy Adams

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
– John Quincy Adams

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
– John Quincy Adams

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
– 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

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
– John Quincy Adams

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
– John Quincy Adams

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
– John Quincy Adams

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
– John Quincy Adams