Authors: John Quincy Adams

Speech on Independence Day

Why is it, Friends and Fellow Citizens, that you are here assembled? Why is it, that, entering upon the sixty-second year of our national existence, you have honored with an

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1825–1860

Annual Message to Congress (1828)

Message of the President to Both Houses of Congress, 20th Cong., 2nd sess., Register of Debates in Congress, Appendix 2. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=007/llrd007.db&recNum=405 Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of

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1789–1825

Annual Message to Congress (1827)

Message of the President to Both Houses of Congress, 20th Cong., 1st sess., Register of Debates in Congress, Appendix p. 2. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=006/llrd006.db&recNum=653 Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House

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1789–1825

Annual Message to Congress (1826)

Message of the President to Both houses of Congress, 19th Cong., 2nd sess., Register of Debates in Congress, Appendix 2. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=004/llrd004.db&recNum=785 Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of

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