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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1767
Born: July 11
Died: 1848
Died: February 23
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[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
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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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Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones
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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.
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Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
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Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.
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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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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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A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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