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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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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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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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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
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Westward the star of empire takes its way.
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So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
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Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.
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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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The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.
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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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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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I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
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My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
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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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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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The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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