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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.
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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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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We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
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Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.
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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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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 firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.
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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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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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The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth.
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A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
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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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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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To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
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Whoever tells the best story wins.
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