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Upon Earth 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…
- The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
- Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it…
- Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth…
- The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life…
- The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On…
- Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
- 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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- Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion… — John Quincy Adams
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- The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth. — John Quincy Adams