John Quincy Adams Quote

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.


The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams (ed. 1946)


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...

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...

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...

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...