John Quincy Adams Quotes about Liberty

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America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

John Quincy Adams

America, Liberty, Custodians

Individual liberty is individual power.

John Quincy Adams

Liberty, Individual Power, Presidency

John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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

John Quincy Adams

Power, People, Liberty

"Novanglus or A History of the Dispute with America, From Its Origin in 1754 to the Present Time (Essay No. 3)". Essays by John Quincy Adams, first published in the Boston Gazette, 1774-1775.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

John Quincy Adams

Religious, Liberty, Foundation

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

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.

John Quincy Adams

Fall, Issues, Liberty

John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.541, Library of America