All JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Quotes about “Liberty”

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
“Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.”
“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.”
“America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.”
“Individual liberty is individual power.”
“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”
“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.”
“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.”

More John Quincy Adams quote about:

You may also like:

Abigail Adams
Former First Lady of the United States
Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President
Henry Clay
Former United States Representative
James Madison
4th U.S. President
James Monroe
5th U.S. President
John Adams
2nd U.S. President
John C. Calhoun
Former United States Representative
John Tyler
10th U.S. President
Martin Van Buren
8th U.S. President
Samuel Adams
Founding Father of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President