John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams as secretary of state from 1817 to 1825 helped to formulate the
Monroe Doctrine
of James Monroe; he served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829 and after his presidency from 1831 to 1848 in the House of Representatives advocated anti-slavery measures.
This diplomat and politician affiliated with Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Abigail Smith Adams bore John Quincy Adams was the son of John Adams, later the second president of United States. Many international negotiations most famously involved him as a diplomat.
He proposed a grand program of modernization and educational advancement but lacked ability to get it through Congress. Late in life as a congressman, he led opponents of the slave power and argued that if a civil war ever broke, then war powers of the president ably abolished slavery; Abraham Lincoln followed this policy in the
Emancipation Proclamation
of 1863.
To date, only this president of the United States subsequently served as a congressman.
“To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.”
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“Try and fail,but don't fail to try.”
“This is the last of earth! I am content.”
“We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.”
“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.”
“America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”
“In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.”
“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”
“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.”
“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.”
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
“Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.”