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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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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
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I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
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Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.
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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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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
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Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.
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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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Whoever tells the best story wins.
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The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.
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I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
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The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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