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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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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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The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.
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The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
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All that I am my mother made me.
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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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There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
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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 believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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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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This is the last of earth! I am content.
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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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Religious discord has lost her sting the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.
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I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
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