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The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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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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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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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To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
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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 influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
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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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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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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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So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
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