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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
I never saw the face of Cobbett ... I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.
— 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
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
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
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
— John Adams
Liberty once lost, is lost forever.
— 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
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
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
— John Quincy 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 historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
— James W. Loewen
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
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
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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
