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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.
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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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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The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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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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Whoever tells the best story wins.
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The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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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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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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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
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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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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
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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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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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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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Westward the star of empire takes its way.
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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 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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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
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[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
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