John Quincy Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: 6th U.S. President
Life: July 11, 1767 - February 28, 1848
Birthday: July 11
Death: February 28
I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.
source: John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”
topic: Country, Humble, Fate, Future Destiny
