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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
6Th U.S. President
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There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
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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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I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service and knowing that except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain, with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.
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All that I am my mother made me.
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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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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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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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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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To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.
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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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There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
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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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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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