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== Quotes by John Quincy Adams ==
{{quote|I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. ''Fiat justitia, pereat coelum''. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
|Letter to his father, [[John Adams]] (1 August 1816), referring to the popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" based upon Stephen Decatur's famous statement "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." The Latin phrase is one that can be translated as : "Let justice be done though heaven should fall" or "though heaven perish".}}
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** ''The Wants of Man'', stanza 22 (25 September 1841)
 
* '''{{quote|We know the redemption must come.''' The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
** |Remarks to "the colored people of Pittsburge, Pennsylvania" in 1843, as quoted in ''History of the Rebellion : Its Authors and Causes'' (1864) by Joshua Reed Giddings; Alabama Representative Dellet quoted the speech in the House of Representatives and added "though it cost the blood of thousands of white men?" Adams replied '''"Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.'''" {{citeReference: bookWilliam Lee |author=Miller, William Lee |title=''Arguing About Slavery. John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress" |publisher=Vintage Books |city=New York |year=(1995), |isbn=0-3945-6922-9page |page=469}}
 
* '''The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community … that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.'''
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**Written in an Album (1842)l compare: "Manus haec inimica tyrannis / Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem", Algernon Sidney, ''From the Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney''.
 
* '''{{quote|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.
**|Journal of John Quincy Adams (11 December 1838), {{cite book |author=Miller,Reference: William Lee |title=Miller, ''Arguing About Slavery. John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress" |publisher=Vintage Books |city=New York |year=(1995), |isbn=0-3945-6922-9page |page=344}}
 
* ''Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize <br> Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; <br> That nature's God commands the slave to rise, <br> And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. <br> '''Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, <br> Till not a slave shall on this earth be found.'''''
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===Letter to the 12th Congressional District (1839)===
*{{quote|The first steps of the slaveholder to justify by argument the peculiar instutitions is to deny the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence. He denies that all men are created equal. He denies that he has inalienable rights.
**|As quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160902072456/http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v{{=}}R44dKDhR33U#A_PEBBLE_IN_YOUR_SHOE.flv letter to the citizens of the twelfth congressional district] (29 June 1839), The Hingham Patriot, MA. As quoted in Thomas Huges Rare and Early Newspaper catalog, No. 141.}}
 
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