202 Quotes by John Quincy Adams

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

All that I am my mother made me.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.