John Quincy Adams Quotes

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

All that I am my mother made me.

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

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.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

Individual liberty is individual power.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

From the experience of the past, we derive instructive lessons for the future.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.