“It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
...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,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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