"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."
― John Quincy Adams
Topic(s):
Freedom
More From John Quincy Adams
- "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- "All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
- "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
More In Freedom
- "A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."― Roald Dahl
- "A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy."― Dan Rather
- "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."― Walter Lippmann