Best Quotes by John Quincy Adams (Top 10)

  1. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
  2. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
  3. 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.
  4. Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
  5. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
  6. I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
  10. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

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