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Westward the star of empire takes its way.
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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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
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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.
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A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.
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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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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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I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service and knowing that except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain, with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.
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Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
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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!
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Religious discord has lost her sting the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.
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The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation byany European powers? In the wars of the Europeanpowers inmattersrelating to ourselves, we have never taken any part nor does it comport with our policy to do so.
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
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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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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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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 want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.
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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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