Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

Profession: President
Nationality: American

Some suggestions for you :

It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

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

From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.