Quotes from John Quincy Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

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

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

All that I am my mother made me.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

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

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

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.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

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.