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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!
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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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
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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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