Five Quotes from John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was sworn in as President of the USA on March 4, 1825.

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." ~John Quincy Adams (6th U.S. President)

6th U.S. President

"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 

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.” ~John Quincy Adams

“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.” ~John Quincy Adams

“If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.” ~John Quincy Adams

Famous Quotes by George Washington

Remembering George Washington on this Birthday!

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.” ~George Washington

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?” ~George Washington

"Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness." ~George Washington

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”  ~George Washington

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” ~George Washington

“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.” ~George Washington

Ten Favorite President Quotations

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” ~Thomas Jefferson 

“Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.” ~Harry S. Truman

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” ~John Quincy Adams

“One man with courage makes a majority.” ~Andrew Jackson

“In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards” ~Abraham Lincoln

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.” ~John F. Kennedy 

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.” ~Ronald Reagan

“When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.” ~Bill Clinton

“I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them.” ~George H.W. Bush

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Fabulous Quotes from President Lincoln

In honor of President ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S Birthday (Feb. 12), we have collected a few of his shortest but powerful quotations.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

George Speaks Out About God and Country

"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency." -George Washington

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable.” – George Washington

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions… – George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789

Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ. – George Washington, Prayer

True religion affords to government its surest support. – George Washington

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