United States Founding Fathers

John Quincy Adams

Quotes

Faith in Jesus Christ

1. "My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away ... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God." - John Quincy Adams, "The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams", Adrienne Koch and William Peden, editors, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946), p. 292, John Quincy Adams to John Adams on January 3, 1817

Government

1. "This principle, that a whole nation has a right to do whatever it pleases, cannot in any sense whatever be admitted as true. The eternal and immutable laws of justice and morality are paramount to all human legislation. The violations of those laws is certainly within the power of a nation, but it is not among the rights of nations."

Morality

1. "There are three points of doctrine, the belief of which, forms the foundation of all morality. The first is, the existence of a God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is, a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these articles of faith, and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark; the laws of man may bind him in chains, or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. " Saint Petersburg Letter 2

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