"All men profess honesty as long as they……" — John Quincy Adams
"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
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John Quincy Adams
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118 Quotes by John Quincy Adams
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is…
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of…
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident…
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America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
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Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God…
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and…
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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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