John Quincy Adams > Quotes

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
― John Quincy Adams

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
― John Quincy Adams

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,
and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that
your vote is never lost.”
― John Quincy Adams

“Patience and perserverence have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
― 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”
― John Quincy Adams

“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”
― John Quincy Adams

“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”
― John Quincy Adams

“America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”
― John Quincy Adams

“Try and fail,but don't fail to try.”
― 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

“We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.”
― John Quincy Adams

“Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.”
― John Quincy Adams

“This is the last of earth! I am content.”
― John Quincy Adams