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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
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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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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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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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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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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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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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To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
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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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?
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The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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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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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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