John Quincy Adams Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• 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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Numbers, Community

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

• So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

  John Quincy Adams

  Hands, Community, Taxation

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

• The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Self, Community

  "Society and Civilization". American Review, July 1845.

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