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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.
John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1767
Born: July 11
Died: 1848
Died: February 23
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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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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 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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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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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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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Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
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America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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This is the last of earth! I am content.
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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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Whoever tells the best story wins.
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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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The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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