John Quincy Adams quotes
1767–1848 · Braintree, MA
...no book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
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- Letters of John Quincy Adams, to his son, on the Bible and its teachings, 1848 · p. 119
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1848 first edition, Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co.)
My custom is, to read four or five chapters every morning, immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day.
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- Letters of John Quincy Adams, to his son, on the Bible and its teachings, 1848 · pp. 11-12 (Letter I)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1848 first edition, Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co.)
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union, and it is a contemplation worthy of the most exalted soul whether its total abolition is or is not practicable: if practicable, by what means it may be effected, and if a choice of means be within the scope of the object, what means would accomplish it at the smallest cost of human sufferance.
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- Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, comprising portions of his diary from 1795 to 1848, vol. IV, 1875 · p. 531 (diary entry of Feb. 24, 1820)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the Lippincott first edition, Philadelphia, 1875; edited by Charles Francis Adams)
...let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.
✓ VerifiedJohn Quincy Adams
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- First Annual Message, December 6, 1825
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
✓ VerifiedJohn Quincy Adams
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- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1825
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara