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Famous John Quincy Adams Quotes
Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814
Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
Source: John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches
Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
“I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.”
Source: The Ancient and Honorable Man. A Discourse [on Isaiah Iii. 1-3] Preached on the Occasion of the Death of Hon. J. Q. Adams, Etc
Source: An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request, on the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837
“Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.”
Source: John Adams
Source: John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches
Source: The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk
“To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.”
Source: Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk
“The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God”
Source: Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings
“It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year”
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
Source: Writings of John Quincey Adams
Source: The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.”
“America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.”