John Quincy Adams Quotes

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

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

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.