Inspitirational John Quincy Adams Quotes
John Quincy Adams was the 6th President of the United States. He was the son of the first Vice President and second President, John Adams.
He has been called the "greatest Secretary of State in American history", a position he held in the term before his election to the presidency. Adams later went on to be elected to the House Of Representives after his term as President.
Read his quotes below:
"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."
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence"
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
"Duty is ours; results are God's"
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order"
"It is essential...that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions...It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them."
"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do"
"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel"
"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
