Quote #21
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this, said John Quincy Adams, it connected in one indistinguishable bond the principles of civil government and the principle of Christianity.
More from John Quincy Adams
- Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
- Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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- This is the last of Earth! I am content.