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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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This is the last of earth! I am content.
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However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones
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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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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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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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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
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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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I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
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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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The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
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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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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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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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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?
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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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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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A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
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