{"author":"John Quincy Adams","author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["religion","government "],"id":9245,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["man","brand","hypocrisy "],"id":9407,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"America... Goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["freedom","imperialism","independence","isolationism","liberty","noninterventionism","peace"],"id":21626,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["you","laws","moses "],"id":24338,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["failure","president"],"id":36801,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["government","political "],"id":49606,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["charity","mankind","secular-ethics","secular-morality"],"id":53801,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["american","revolution "],"id":69226,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["posterity"],"id":96063,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"},{"text":"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.","author":"John Quincy Adams","tags":["perseverance","obstacles "],"id":183638,"author_id":"John+Quincy+Adams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}