John Quincy Adams Quotes: The Man behind the Words
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. John Quincy Adams was the son of former President John Adams and Abigail Adams.
Here is a list of some great John Quincy Adams Quotes.
John Quincy Adams Quotes
1. You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.
- John Quincy Adams
2. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
- John Quincy Adams
3. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
4. So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society.
- John Quincy Adams
5. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disapear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy Adams
6. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
- John Quincy Adams
7. To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
- John Quincy Adams
8. Westward the star of empire takes its way.
- John Quincy Adams
9. In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
- John Quincy Adams
10. Courage and perserverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
11. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
- John Quincy Adams
12. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
- John Quincy Adams
13. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Quincy Adams
14. This is the last of earth! I am content.
- John Quincy Adams
15. It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
- John Quincy Adams
16. 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
17. A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
- John Quincy Adams
18. A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
- John Quincy Adams
19. So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society.
- John Quincy Adams
20. 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
21. 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
22. The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this -- it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity.
- John Quincy Adams
23. Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
- John Quincy Adams
24. I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.
- John Quincy Adams
25. Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
- John Quincy Adams
26. My wants are many, and, if told, would muster many a score; and were each wish a mint of gold, I still would want for more.
- John Quincy Adams
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