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It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year
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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The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
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Whoever tells the best story wins.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.
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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.
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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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Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
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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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Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.
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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.
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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
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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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My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.
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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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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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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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