John Quincy Adams Quotes about War

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I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

John Quincy Adams

War, Son, Agriculture

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

John Quincy Adams

War, Ambition, Color

Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.

...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.

John Quincy Adams

War, Islam, Muhammad

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

John Quincy Adams

War, Preparation, Defense

John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

John Quincy Adams

War, Character, Hands

Alexander Francis Chamberlain, Archer Butler Hulbert, James Ford Rhodes, Noah Jones, John Quincy Adams (1913). “The Most Successful American Privateer: An Episode of the War of 1812”

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Quincy Adams

Peace, War, America

"Speech of July 4, 1821". John Quincy Adams " The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotation. Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation byany European powers? In the wars of the Europeanpowers inmattersrelating to ourselves, we have never taken any part; nor does it comport with our policy to do so.

John Quincy Adams

War, Taken, Independent

1823 The Monroe Doctrine, 2 Dec.