Quotes by John Quincy Adams
| Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. |
| Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. |
| Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. |
| Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. |
| Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. |
| America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. |
