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A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
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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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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[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
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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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Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
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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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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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My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.
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