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Great Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that…
- It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those…
- 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…
- Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
- Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that…
- 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…
- The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
- 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…
- Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now…
- The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social…
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