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{{Wikiquote quotes}}
== 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)
* '''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''.
* ''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)===
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