John Quincy Adams Quotes (55 Quotes)

They even persuaded mankind to believe, faithfully and undoubtingly, that God Almighty had entrusted them with the keys of heaven, whose gates they might open and close at pleasure with a power of dispensation over all the rules and obligations of morali.

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

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIIIAdmit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall Into the hands of the democracy Into the hands of serfs and villains Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats....

Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.