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John Quincy Adams

6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)

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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

– John Quincy Adams

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

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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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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 both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

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Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

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Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

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It is a source of gratification and of encouragement to me to observe that the great result of this experiment upon the theory of human rights has at the close of that generation by which it was formed been crowned with success equal to the most sanguine expectations of its founders.

– John Quincy Adams

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Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

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