John Quincy Adams Quotes about Earth

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The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

John Quincy Adams

Heaven, Treasure, Earth

John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

This is the last of earth! I am content.

John Quincy Adams

Death, Dying, Earth

Quoted in William H. Seward, Eulogy of John Quincy Adams Before Legislature of New York (1848)

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

John Quincy Adams

Years, Promise, Earth

John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.174, Library of America

The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.

John Quincy Adams

Science, Men, Earth

"Memoir of the life of John Quincy Adams". Book by Josiah Quincy, 1858.