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• The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

  John Quincy Adams

  Years, Four, Miserable

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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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Independent, Law, People

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, America, Champion

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• We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

  John Quincy Adams

  Understanding, Who We Are, Embrace

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• All that I am
  my mother made me.

  John Quincy Adams

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• [I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, Independent, Israel

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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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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.23

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• I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

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  Believe, Rights, Order

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• The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Gratitude, Government, People

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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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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  Warrior, Son, May

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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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Struggle, Government, Degenerates

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1779-1821”, p.564, Library of America

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• Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

  John Quincy Adams

  Perseverance, Strong, Passion

  John Quincy Adams (1802). “An Oration, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1802, at the anniversary commemoration of the first landing of our ancestors at that place”, p.13

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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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  Mistake, Serious, Littles

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• My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

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  Bible, Morning, Godly

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• Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

  John Quincy Adams

  Opportunity, Temptation

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• There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

  John Quincy Adams

  Book, Reading, Temptation

  John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

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• Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Political, Church

  John Quincy Adams (1876). “Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers”, p.21

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• Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

  John Quincy Adams

  Presidential, Slavery, Unions

  John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

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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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  Honesty, 4th Of July, Believe

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.

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  Sweet, Powerful, Blessed

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• The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

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  War, Preparation, Defense

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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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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  Heaven, Treasure, Earth

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

  John Quincy Adams

  Art, Zero, Yankees

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• The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

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  Life, Friendship, Relationship

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• It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

  John Quincy Adams

  Exercise, Reflection, World

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.23

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