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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.
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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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 Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
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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 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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