John Quincy Adams Quotes

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Courage, Perseverance, Difficulties, Obstacles)

"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: America)

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: May, Reflection, Vote)

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Men, Honesty, Folly)

"Where annual elections end where slavery begins."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Elections, End, Slavery)

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Hope, Freedom, Will)

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Power, People, Maxim)

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Leader, Dream, Actions)

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Government, Christianity, American, Revolution, Glory, Principles)