John Quincy Adams


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.

John Quincy Adams


Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams


Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.