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By John Quincy Adams
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1825
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From President John Quincy Adams's Inaugural Address, March 4, 1825. He was looking back over the first generation of the Constitution, with its successes and its quarrels, and then looking ahead to the generation that was coming.