John Quincy Adams Quotes about Progress

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Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the

Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?

John Quincy Adams

Government, Independence, Progress

Speech on Independence Day at Newburyport, MA, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1837.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

John Quincy Adams

Stars, Progress, Empires

John Quincy Adams (1802). “An Oration, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1802, at the anniversary commemoration of the first landing of our ancestors at that place”, p.31

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

John Quincy Adams

Horse, America, Progress

John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams (2005). “John Adams”, p.245, Cosimo, Inc.