If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled. John Quincy Adams More Quotes by John Quincy Adams More Quotes From John Quincy Adams The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. John Quincy Adams christian believe jesus The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! John Quincy Adams arbitrary use law There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth. John Quincy Adams atheism spirit christian His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. John Quincy Adams sarcastic body poison There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. John Quincy Adams reading temptation book 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 gratitude government people To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it. John Quincy Adams ignorant education men I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time. John Quincy Adams practice morning years Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?. John Quincy Adams 4th-of-july events world Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error. John Quincy Adams party integrity country The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not. John Quincy Adams republican government manners Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction. John Quincy Adams warfare religious world Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour? John Quincy Adams founding-fathers-religion chains events The freedom of the press should be inviolate. John Quincy Adams freedom-of-the-press printing should I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me. John Quincy Adams cheer strong friendship Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. John Quincy Adams foundation liberty religious [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice. John Quincy Adams independence practice america What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness? John Quincy Adams quests fields history The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. John Quincy Adams moral religious law While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men. John Quincy Adams powerful blessed men
