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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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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...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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Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
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America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
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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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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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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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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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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.
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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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A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.
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[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
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Religious discord has lost her sting the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.
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The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
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All that I am my mother made me.
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