John Quincy Adams Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

Duty is ours, results are God's.

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

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

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

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

Whoever tells the best story wins.

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

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Individual liberty is individual power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

All that I am my mother made me.

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

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