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I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
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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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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Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
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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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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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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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Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.
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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
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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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There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
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All that I am my mother made me.
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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.
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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
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