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There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
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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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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[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
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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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