John Quincy Adams People Quotations

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.