John Quincy Adams

If the dissolution of the Union should result from the slave question, it is as obvious as anything . . . that it must be shortly afterward followed by the universal emancipation of the slaves.' For 'slavery is the great…

Why is it, Friends and Fellow Citizens, that you are here assembled? ... Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and venerated festival returns on this day? ...Is it not that, in…

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

Por donde sea que el estandarte de la libertad y la independencia se haya desplegado o se vaya a desplegar, ah'estar'n su coraz'n, sus bendiciones y sus plegarias. Pero no ir'n a ultramar en busca de monstruos que destru…

By infant baptism a person is committed, while unconscious, to a certain church; he is made a member of that church. Now, unless that church is infallible, it has no right to make a person a member without his consent; f…