Quote

So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

John Quincy Adams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Quincy Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1767
Born: July 11
Died: 1848
Died: February 23
6Th U.S. President
Diarist
Diplomat
Lawyer
Politician
Statesperson
Braintree
Massachusetts
John Q. Adams
President Adams
John Adams
J. Q. Adams
J. Adams
JQA
Children
Citizens
Earlier
Great
Practice
Biblical
Made
Year
Confident
Every
Society
Useful
Years
Read
Bible
Hope
Begin
Country
Members
Veneration
Many
Prove
Respectable

More quotes by John Quincy Adams

Image
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
John Quincy Adams
Image
A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
John Quincy Adams
Image
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
John Quincy Adams
Image
A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
John Quincy Adams
Image
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
John Quincy Adams
Image
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
John Quincy Adams
Image
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
John Quincy Adams
Image
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
John Quincy Adams
Image
The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.
John Quincy Adams
Image
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
John Quincy Adams
Image
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
John Quincy Adams
Image
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
John Quincy Adams
Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
John Quincy Adams
Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.
John Quincy Adams
Image
We know the redemption must come.
John Quincy Adams
Image
In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
John Quincy Adams
Image
[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
John Quincy Adams
Image
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
Image
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
John Quincy Adams
Image
The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
John Quincy Adams