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John Quincy Adams Inspirational Quotes (84)

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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
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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.
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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
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The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
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The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
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It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
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To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
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The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.
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I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
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Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.
John Quincy Adams
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