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

Politics, Alone, Lost

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

Leadership, Others, Leader

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams

History, Good, Hope

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Patience, Before, Obstacles

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

Government, Revolution, American

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

Men, Long, Honesty

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

Courage, Before, Obstacles

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

America, Destroy, Search

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

Power, Arbitrary, Bud

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams

End, Slavery, Elections

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: July 11, 1767

Died: February 23, 1848

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