Famous Quotes

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

John Quincy Adams on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by John Quincy Adams

• "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

• "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."