Frases de John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams fue un diplomático y político estadounidense que llegó a ser el sexto presidente de los Estados Unidos . Fue miembro del Partido Federalista, del Partido Demócrata-Republicano, del Partido Nacional-Republicano y, más tarde, del Partido Anti-Masónico y del Partido Whig.

Adams fue hijo del segundo presidente de EE. UU., John Adams y de su esposa Abigail Adams. Fue diplomático y estuvo implicado en numerosas negociaciones internacionales. Además, como Secretario de Estado, participó en la creación de la Doctrina Monroe. Cuando fue presidente emprendió un programa de modernización y desarrollo de la educación, que fue bloqueado por el Congreso. No consiguió la reelección en 1828, al perder contra Andrew Jackson.

Adams, después de dejar el cargo, fue elegido para la Cámara de Representantes por Massachusetts; ha sido el único presidente en hacerlo, siendo miembro de la Cámara los últimos 17 años de su vida. En la Cámara de Representantes se convirtió en un líder abolicionista, e incluso llegó a afirmar que, en caso de que estallara una guerra civil, el presidente podría abolir la esclavitud por medio de sus poderes de guerra ; tal y como hizo Abraham Lincoln en 1863 durante la Guerra de Secesión con la Proclamación de Emancipación. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. julio 1767 – 23. febrero 1848
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Frases célebres de John Quincy Adams

“Si tus acciones inspiran a otros a soñar más, aprender más, hacer más y cambiar más, eres un líder.”

Fuente: Marturano, Janice. Mindfulness en el liderazgo: Cómo crear tu espacio interior para liderar con excelencia. Traducido por David González Raga. Editorial Kairós, 2017. ISBN 9788499885858.

“En caridad a toda la humanidad, sin malicia o mala voluntad hacia cualquier ser humano, e incluso sintiendo compasión de los que tienen en esclavitud a sus semejantes, sin saber lo que están haciendo.”

Original: «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».
Fuente: Carta a Bronson Alcott de 30 de julio de 1838. The Yale Book of Quotations. Editores Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro, Fred R. Shapiro. Colaborador Joseph Epstein. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780300107982. Página 6. https://books.google.es/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA6&dq=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.+John+Quincy+Adams&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdtuXAkObfAhVSOhoKHSSBA3wQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=In%20charity%20to%20all%20mankind%2C%20bearing%20no%20malice%20or%20ill-will%20to%20any%20human%20being%2C%20and%20even%20compassionating%20those%20who%20hold%20in%20bondage%20their%20fellow-men%2C%20not%20knowing%20what%20they%20do.%20John%20Quincy%20Adams&f=false

Frases de hombres de John Quincy Adams

“Todos los hombres profesan la honestidad mientras pueden. Creer que todos los hombres son honestos sería una locura. Creer que ninguno lo es, es algo peor.”

Original: «All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse».
Fuente: Feulner, Edwin J.; Tracy, Brian. The American Spirit: Celebrating the Virtues and Values that Make Us Great. Editorial Thomas Nelson, 2012. ISBN 9781595553904. p. 95.

“Tan grande es mi veneración por la Biblia y tan fuerte mi creencia de que, cuando se lee y medita debidamente, es de todos los libros del mundo el que más contribuye a hacer que los hombres sean buenos, sabios y felices.”

Original: «So great is my veneration for the Bible, and so strong my belief that, when duly read and meditated on, it is of all the books in the world that wich contributes most to make men good, wise and happy».
Fuente: Thayer, William Makepeace. The Poor Boy and Merchant Prince; Or, Elements of Success Drawn from the Life of A. Lawrence. A Book for Boys. Publicado en 1861. p. 314. https://books.google.es/books?id=QrJcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA314&dq=Of+all+the+books+in+the+world,+it+is+the+one+that+contributes+most+to+making+men+good,+wise+and+happy.+John+Quincy+Adams&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM_JOowOTfAhWv3OAKHYfTAbgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Of%20all%20the%20books%20in%20the%20world%2C%20it%20is%20the%20one%20that%20contributes%20most%20to%20making%20men%20good%2C%20wise%20and%20happy.%20John%20Quincy%20Adams&f=false
Fuente: Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son (Cartas de John Quincy Adams a su hijo), 1849, pág. 9.

John Quincy Adams Frases y Citas

“Proporcionar los medios para adquirir conocimiento es, por lo tanto, el mayor beneficio que puede otorgarse a la humanidad. Prolonga la vida misma y amplía la esfera de la existencia.”

En un discurso de agradecimiento sobre el establecimiento de la Smithsonian Institution (c. 1846) gracias al legado de Mr. Smithson.
Original: «To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, therefore, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence».
Fuente: Quincy, Josiah. Memoir of the life of John Quincy Adams. Edición reimpresa. Editorial Crosby, Nichols, Lee and company, 1860. Página 265. https://books.google.es/books?id=XDwOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265&dq=To+furnish+the+means+of+acquiring+knowledge+is+.+.+.+the+greatest+benefit+that+can+be+conferred+upon+mankind.+It+prolongs+life+itself+and+enlarges+the+sphere+of+existence&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfpd6UmObfAhWNDWMBHcKXB4UQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=To%20furnish%20the%20means%20of%20acquiring%20knowledge%20is%20.%20.%20.%20the%20greatest%20benefit%20that%20can%20be%20conferred%20upon%20mankind.%20It%20prolongs%20life%20itself%20and%20enlarges%20the%20sphere%20of%20existence&f=false

“Siempre vote por principio, aunque vote solo, y podrá apreciar la más dulce reflexión, que su voto no se pierde nunca.”

Original: «Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost».
Fuente: America Needs a Third Party Now!. Editora Karen Y. Murray. Editorial Lulu.com, 2011. ISBN 9781257956876. Página 81. https://books.google.es/books?id=gBpeAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA81&dq=%22Always+vote+for+principle,+though+you+may+vote+alone,+and+you+may+cherish+the+sweetest+reflection+that+your+vote+is+never+lost&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7qMy9oebfAhUn3uAKHYd1DG8Q6AEIPzAD#v=onepage&q=%22Always%20vote%20for%20principle%2C%20though%20you%20may%20vote%20alone%2C%20and%20you%20may%20cherish%20the%20sweetest%20reflection%20that%20your%20vote%20is%20never%20lost&f=false

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“Sabemos que la redención ha de venir. El tiempo y la manera de su venida nosotros no lo sabemos: Puede venir en paz, o puede venir por la sangre, pero tanto en paz o por la sangre, que venga.”

Original: «We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, let it come».
Fuente: Partridge, J. Arthur. The Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in the West. Editorial J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1866. Página XXIX. https://books.google.es/books?id=GRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR29&dq=We+know+the+redemption+must+come.+The+time+and+the+manner+of+its+coming+we+know+not:+It+may+come+in+peace,+or+it+may+come+in+blood;+but+whether+in+peace+or+in+blood,+let+it+come&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjruIOIlubfAhVK8BQKHSKiBNsQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=We%20know%20the%20redemption%20must%20come.%20The%20time%20and%20the%20manner%20of%20its%20coming%20we%20know%20not%3A%20It%20may%20come%20in%20peace%2C%20or%20it%20may%20come%20in%20blood%3B%20but%20whether%20in%20peace%20or%20in%20blood%2C%20let%20it%20come&f=false

“Le dije lo que pensaba que era la lógica de la ley - un sistema artificial de razonamiento, exclusivamente utilizado en los tribunales de justicia, pero no sirve para nada en ningún otro lugar.”

Apunte en su diario refiriéndose al juez del Tribunal Supremo John Marshall.
Original: «I told him it was law logic—an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else».
Fuente: Strier, Franklin D. Reconstructing Justice: An Agenda for Trial Reform. Editorial Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. ISBN 9780899305684. Página 6. https://books.google.es/books?id=5LPF3rHUmloC&pg=PA6&dq=I+told+him+it+was+law+logic-an+artificial+system+of+reasoning,+exclusively+used+in+courts+of+justice,+but+good+for+nothing+anywhere+else&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTrInZnObfAhXRAmMBHRGLBtQQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=I%20told%20him%20it%20was%20law%20logic-an%20artificial%20system%20of%20reasoning%2C%20exclusively%20used%20in%20courts%20of%20justice%2C%20but%20good%20for%20nothing%20anywhere%20else&f=false

John Quincy Adams: Frases en inglés

“The first steps of the slaveholder to justify by argument the peculiar instutitions is to deny the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence. He denies that all men are created equal. He denies that he has inalienable rights.”

As quoted in letter to the citizens of the twelfth congressional district (29 June 1839), The Hingham Patriot, MA. As quoted in Thomas Huges Rare and Early Newspaper catalog, No. 141
Letter to the 12th Congressional District (1839)

“I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.”

Letter to his father, John Adams (1 August 1816), referring to the popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" based upon Stephen Decatur's famous statement "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." The Latin phrase is one that can be translated as : "Let justice be done though heaven should fall" or "though heaven perish".

“Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union… A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary… The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.”

Diary entry (1820), as quoted in The Diary of John Quincy Adams (1951), by John Quincy Adams, Scribner's Sons, New York, p. 228-229 http://web.archive.org/web/20130703084250/http://home.nas.com/lopresti/ps6.htm

“My wants are many, and, if told,
Would muster many a score;
And were each wish a mint of gold,
I still would want for more.”

The Wants of Man, stanza 1, published in The Quincy Patriot (25 September 1841)

“In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST : TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.”

Passage on Muhammad by an anonymous author in The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9 (1830), edited by Joseph Blunt, Ch. X, p. 269. Robert Spencerattributed the authorship to Adams in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (2005), p. 83, but provided no clear documentation as to why this attribution was made.
Disputed

“The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this — it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity.”

Letter to an autograph collector (identified: "Washington, 27th April, 1837"), published in The Historical Magazine 4:7 (July 1860), pp. 193-194 https://archive.org/stream/historicalmagaziv4morr#page/194/mode/1up; this became slightly misquoted by John Wingate Thornton in The Pulpit of The American Revolution (1860): "The highest glory of the American Revolution, said John Quincy Adams, was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity".

“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.”

La molesse est doce, et sa suite est cruelle.
Attributed as a diary entry, as quoted in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1992) by Suzy Platt

“I told him that I thought it was law logic — an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.”

Diary record of a comment made by Adams to John Marshall, Charles Francis Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams : Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 (1875), p. 372

“30th [June 1841]. Morning visit from John Ross, chief of the Cherokee Nation, with Vann and Benn, two others of the delegation. Ross had written to request an interview with me for them on my appointment as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. I was excused from that service at my own request, from a full conviction that its only result would be to keep a perpetual harrow upon my feelings, with a total impotence to render any useful service. The policy, from Washington to myself, of all the Presidents of the United States had been justice and kindness to the Indian tribes—to civilize and preserve them. With the Creeks and Cherokees it had been eminently successful. Its success was their misfortune. The States within whose borders their settlements were took the alarm, broke down all the treaties which had pledged the faith of the nation. Georgia extended her jurisdiction over them, took possession of their lands, houses, cattle, furniture, negroes, and drove them out from their own dwellings. All the Southern States supported Georgia in this utter prostration of faith and justice; and Andrew Jackson, by the simultaneous operation of fraudulent treaties and brutal force, consummated the work. The Florida War is one of the fruits of this policy, the conduct of which exhibits one (un)interrupted scene of the most profligate corruption. All resistance against this abomination is vain. It is among the heinous sins of this nation, for which I believe God will one day bring them to judgement—but as His own time and by His own means.”

Diary entry (30 June 1841)

“America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once 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 standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet on her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world; she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... Her glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.”

Independence Day address (1821)

“I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum.”

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
Letter to his father, John Adams (1 August 1816), referring to the popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" based upon Stephen Decatur's famous statement "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." The Latin phrase is one that can be translated as : "Let justice be done though heaven should fall" or "though heaven perish".

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