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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1767
Born: July 11
Died: 1848
Died: February 23
6Th U.S. President
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Braintree
Massachusetts
John Q. Adams
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The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.
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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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I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
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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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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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I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
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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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The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!
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Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.
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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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My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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