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Whoever tells the best story wins.
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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Westward the star of empire takes its way.
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Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.
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My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.
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I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.
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To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.
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The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
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It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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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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My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
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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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There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
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The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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We know the redemption must come.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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