Quotes by "John Quincy Adams"
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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.
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.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
