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Been Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- 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…
- If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common…
- The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .…
- [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…
- I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance…
- 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…
- Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
- The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has…
- The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it…
- In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had…
- We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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