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“I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.” quote by John Quincy Adams — Download Open image

“I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.”

John Quincy Adams

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I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of…

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