Epitaph for John Adams (1829), inscribed on one of the portals of the United First Parish Church Unitarian (Church of the Presidents), Quincy. This house will bear witness to his piety this town, his birthplace, to his munificence history to his patriotism posterity to the depth and compass of his mind. Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation. Diary entry (1820), as quoted in The Diary of John Quincy Adams (1951), by John Quincy Adams, Scribner's Sons, New York, p. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. From the private journal of Secretary of State Adams (1820). It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. 
They look down upon the simplicity of a Yankee’s manners, because he has no habits of overbearing like theirs and cannot treat negroes like dogs.
But when probed to the quick upon it, they show at the bottom of their souls pride and vainglory in their condition of masterdom. In the abstract they admit that slavery is an evil, they disclaim it, and cast it all upon the shoulder of…Great Britain.
The discussion of this Missouri question has betrayed the secret of their souls. McAllister, in The Federalist (18 August 2014) Letter written as Secretary of State under President James Monroe (1819), as quoted in "What John Quincy Adams Said About Immigration Will Blow Your Mind" by D.C. They come to a life of independence, but to a life of labor-and, if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, with all its compensating balances of good and evil, the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers. They are to expect, if affluent, to possess the means of making their property productive, with moderation, and with safety -if indigent, but industrious, honest and frugal, the means of obtaining easy and comfortable subsistence for themselves and their families. They are to expect, if they choose to become citizens, equal rights with those of the natives of the country. , coming here, are not to expect favors from the governments. Privileges are granted by European sovereigns to particular classes of individuals, for purposes of general policy but the general impression here is that privileges granted to one denomination of people, can very seldom be discriminated from erosions of the rights of others. This is a land, not of privileges, but of equal rights. There is one principle which pervades all the institutions of this country, and which must always operate as an obstacle to the granting of favors to new comers. All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals. 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". My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue.
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