To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
John Quincy AdamsIt has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
John Quincy AdamsMy hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.
John Quincy AdamsCourage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.
John Quincy AdamsThe gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
John Quincy AdamsWhenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.
John Quincy Adams