The John Quincy Adams Society

The John Quincy Adams Society (JQA) is a national network of student groups focused on U.S. foreign policy, with a centering vision of restraint. Our chapters aim to help college students advance, both intellectually and professionally, while promoting a broader and more strategic conversation about Americas approach to international affairs. Were nonpartisan and nonpolitical: we work in the world of ideas, not on activism or elections, and we seek to work with every corner of the political spectrum. We take our name from Americas sixth president, who was an accomplished diplomat and helped lay the foundations of the early Republics approach to the world. He famously encapsulated that spirit so: Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [Americas] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion an...