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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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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 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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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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We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
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Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth.
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Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.
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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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It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
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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 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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It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.
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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 firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
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All that I am my mother made 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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To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
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