Best Quotes by John Quincy Adams (Top 10)
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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.
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Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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.
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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.
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We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
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This is the last of earth! I am content.
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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
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