America... goes not abroad, ...

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
 John Quincy Adams

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
 John Quincy Adams
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
 John Quincy Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
 John Quincy Adams
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.
 John Quincy Adams
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
 John Quincy Adams