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 AdamsAmerica does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.
John Quincy AdamsThe art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
John Quincy AdamsAmerica... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
John Quincy Adams