Quotes from John Quincy Adams
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
— John Quincy Adams
All that I am my mother made me.
— John Quincy Adams
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
— John Quincy Adams
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
— John Quincy Adams
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
— John Quincy Adams
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.
— John Quincy Adams
Whoever tells the best story wins.
— John Quincy Adams
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.
— John Quincy Adams
This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
— John Quincy Adams