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• We know the redemption must come.

  John Quincy Adams

  Redemption, Knows

  "History of the Rebellion: Its Authors and Causes". Book by Joshua Reed Giddings, 1864.

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• To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

  John Quincy Adams

  Mean, Science, Benefits

  "Smithsonian Perspectives" by I. Michael Heyman, www.smithsonianmag.com. February 1996.

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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

  Law, Arbitrary, Use

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• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Faith, Book

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• There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Christian, Atheism, Spirit

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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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!

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Circles, Presidential

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• We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

  John Quincy Adams

  Blood, Redemption, May

  "History of the Rebellion: Its Authors and Causes". Book by Joshua Reed Giddings, 1864.

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• The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Republican, Manners

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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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Hands, Limbs, Seems

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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• A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Despair, Stout

  "The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

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• It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational Life, Past, Thorough Knowledge

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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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Charity, Moral

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.329, Library of America

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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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Years, Practice

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• Westward the star of empire takes its way.

  John Quincy Adams

  Stars, Progress, Empires

  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.31

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• Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

  John Quincy Adams

  Life, Men, Problem

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• The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of them can operate without extending its influence to the others. All these interests are alike under the protecting power of the legislative authority, and the duties of the representative bodies are to conciliate them in harmony together.

  John Quincy Adams

  Together, Body, Unions

  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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• Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

  John Quincy Adams

  Art, Wall, Men

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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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Blessed, Numbers

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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• The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

  John Quincy Adams

  Printing, Should, Freedom Of The Press

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• I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

  John Quincy Adams

  Friendship, Strong, Cheer

  JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.21

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• Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Forever, Departed, Survivor

  John Quincy Adams (1876). “Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848”, p.386

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• What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

  John Quincy Adams

  History, Quests, Fields

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• In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

  John Quincy Adams

  Knowledge, Light, Historical

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.20

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• The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Law, Moral

  "Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams".

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• [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

  John Quincy Adams

  Practice, America, Independence

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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