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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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Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.
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In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
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The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.
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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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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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When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.
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The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.
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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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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.
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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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I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
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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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Whoever tells the best story wins.
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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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