"Let justice be done, though the heavens fall."

[kentuck]

A quote that John Quincy Adams is reported to have made. DUer, volstork, quotes it from an article by Charlie Pierce. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212297556

The times of John Quincy Adams seem so much like the present times. I think Andrew Jackson was a lot like Donald Trump, with his penchant for monarchism.

But, it contrasts with the present Congress and Legislature. Justice was very important to John Quincy Adams. We don't know if it is as important to today's Congress?

To read the full quote would surely give them pause, I would think?

<“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.”

And when Congressman James Dellet quoted the speech in the House, querulously wondering if Adams meant the blood “of thousands of white men,” Adams replied,

"Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.” >

[marble falls]

1. "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." Great line.

[Shrike47]

2. Earliest citation in England is 1601, per Wikipedia. The Latin phrase was common.