John Quincy Adams Quotes
Keep what is yours, but leave the rest of the continent to us.
Adams was Secretary of State at the time.
John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848, 6th President of the United States (Independent, MA), Statement to British Ambassador Stratford Canning, January 1821
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Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
This Proclamation was issued upon arrival of the British occupying imperial army in present day Iraq. The English policy makers like the Bush administration almost a century later were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
William the Conqueror. The King had come ashore and fell forward in the sand on his face and hands. Showing a sense of humor, he hade this statement. Shortly thereafter he took England militarily at Hastings and seized it politically.
With different concepts of land ownership Europeans and Indians were at odds over purchases from the earliest times. This was the first of the many efforts to eliminate problems of contention with Native Americans over land.
Burke argued for England giving America much more freedom and self determination.
The purpose was to try and get the king and parliament not to enforce the Stamp Act in the colonies. The delegates had to thrash out the language and it was important to flatter the king and parliament. While some delegates felt that loyalty to the mother country, many others thought that the king and parliament had betrayed them and thought this language gross hypocrisy. See {589426} for one delegate’s description of the difficulty.
This was a last attempt to avoid war. Lord Howe met with William Rutledge, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. The discussions were civil and Howe wanted to avoid a conflict but he did not have the authority to accept the American colonists demand for independence.
“Somsteu” was the name the Africans gave to Theophilus Shepstone, 1817-1893, British Colonial African Administrator.
Although the Irish members of Parliament were never sufficient to control Parliament on an “Irish question” pitting Irish against English, they were at times in sufficient numbers to hold the balance of power between English factions, thus “controlling England.”
Gladstone received a telegram from Queen Victoria asking him to form a government and become Prime Minister:
Given the time, Mill’s view on the colonies were appreciated by few Englishmen, but turned out to be exactly predict the British reality a century later.
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.
