To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

- John Quincy Adams

Duty is ours, results are God's.

- John Quincy Adams

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the imm…

- John Quincy Adams

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

- John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

- John Quincy Adams

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

- John Quincy Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles o…

- John Quincy Adams

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

- John Quincy Adams

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a …

- John Quincy Adams