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It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. — John Quincy Adams

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair. — John Quincy Adams

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams

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

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government. — John Adams

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved. — Michele Bachmann

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. — John Quincy Adams

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency. — John Quincy Adams

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics. — John Luther Adams

A government of laws, and not of men — John Adams

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. — John Quincy Adams

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. — John Adams

Everything in life should be done with reflection. — John Adams

No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. — John Adams

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. — Gavin Bryars

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found. — John Quincy Adams

I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal. — Mark Adams

What's in these tacos?" a customer asked Del. "Nobody you know, mister," Del said. — John Joseph Adams

I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life — John Adams

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation. — John Adams

The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative. — John Adams

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them. — John Adams

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it. — John Luther Adams

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul. — John Adams

I shall have the liberty to think for myself. — John Adams

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams

I never saw the face of Cobbett ... I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish. — John Adams

Power in any Form ... when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. — John Adams

Genius is sorrow's child. — John Adams

A room is - it's a frame, and the people in it are the pictures. — John Joseph Adams

You are so ridiculous," said the lion. "Thinking that your thinking is worth thinking about. — John Joseph Adams

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain ... This would be the BAFTAs. — Tom Hanks

We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams — David McCullough

Fear is the foundation of most governments. — John Adams

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

'Skinned' tells the story of Lia, a young girl who has it all - until she nearly dies and has her consciousness transferred into a robot body. — John Joseph Adams

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. — John Quincy Adams

In Virginia... all geese are swans. — John Adams

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence — John Adams

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. — John Quincy Adams

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition. — John Adams

Individual liberty is individual power. — John Quincy Adams

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough ... the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. — John Adams

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind. — John Quincy Adams

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world? — John Adams

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. — John Adams

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. — John Adams

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity. — John Adams

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams

Liberty once lost, is lost forever. — John Adams

This wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep. — John Adams

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise. — John Adams

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams} — Abigail Adams

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. — John Quincy Adams

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. — John Adams

The city has millions of stories that I don't know. Never did and never will. — John Joseph Adams

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. — John Quincy Adams

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore. — Paul C. Nagel

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone. — John Quincy Adams

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. — John Adams

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present. — John Adams

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams

The Constitution is ... the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen — John Adams

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. — John Quincy Adams

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible. — John Quincy Adams

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. — John Adams

The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS — James W. Loewen

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best. — John Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — John Adams

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. — John Adams

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams

You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other. — John Adams

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. — John Quincy Adams

John [to Sherlock]: You're incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver. — Guy Adams

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. — John Adams

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. — John Quincy Adams

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write . — John Adams

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8. — John Joseph Adams

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself. — John Adams

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. — John Quincy Adams

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. — John Quincy Adams

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue. — John Adams

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service. — John Adams

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done. — John Quincy Adams

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle. — John Adams

Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices. — John Adams