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 AdamsAll men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy AdamsHis face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
John Quincy AdamsThe law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.
John Quincy Adams