John Quincy Adams Quotes
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.
Adams, John Quincy. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874-1877.
He was committed to Irish freedom and independence but via politics and the law. Although he was very popular and attained much politically, there have always been Irishmen who felt violence was necessary and some who resorted to terrorism.
This was the exact political logical scenario that German socialist Bebel had predicted a few years earlier--{642075}. “Hectacomb” was an ancient Greek term referring to the public sacrifice of the blood of 100 oxen. It developed a more generalized meaning referring to making a very large human sacrifice of life for a national purpose.
John Quincy Adams was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825. During his long diplomatic and political career, Adams also served as an ambassador, and as a member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives representing Massachusetts. He was the eldest son of John Adams, who served as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801, and First Lady Abigail Adams. Initially a Federalist like his father, he won election to the presidency as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and in the mid-1830s became affiliated with the Whig Party.
