202 Quotes by John Quincy Adams

"Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God."

"Try and fail,but don't fail to try."

"Westward the star of empire takes its way."

"My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue."

"Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls."

"Whoever tells the best story wins."

"The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult."

"Duty is ours, results are God's."

"From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future."

"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom."