John Quincy Adams Quotes

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

John Quincy Adams

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

John Quincy Adams

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

John Quincy Adams

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

John Quincy Adams

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.

John Quincy Adams

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.

John Quincy Adams

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.

John Quincy Adams

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

John Quincy Adams

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.

John Quincy Adams