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Most Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most…
- 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…
- 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…
- The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
- The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .…
- 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,…
- Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our…
- The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.
- 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…
- To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal…
- Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day…
- 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…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster