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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
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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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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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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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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There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
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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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A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
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A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
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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 inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
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All that I am my mother made me.
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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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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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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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The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
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When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.
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The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.
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A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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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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