John Quincy Adams Quotes

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

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

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

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

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.