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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.
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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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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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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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 believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
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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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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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Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
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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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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
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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 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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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
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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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A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
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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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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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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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I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
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