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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“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

#Honesty #4th Of July #Believe
“Duty is ours, results are God's.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Reality #Conservative #Results
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Patriotic #Reflection #Presidential
“Whoever tells the best story wins.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Winning #Stories
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Warrior #Son #May
“America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Peace #America #Independence
“The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Religious #Men #Law
“I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time....”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Morning #Years #Practice
“May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Country #Successful #Presidential
“There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Book #Reading #Temptation
“This is the last of earth! I am content.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Dying #Earth #Lasts
“It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Jesus #Integrity #Son
“All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Struggle #Government #Degenerates
“[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Practice #America #Independence
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Principles #May #Vote
“In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Men #Knowing #Charity
“To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Mean #Benefits #Spheres
“I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Book #Men #Two
“Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?Â That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?Â Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemerâ€™s mission upon earth?Â That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Government #Independence #Progress
“The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Fall #Men #Redemption
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?”
-- John Quincy Adams

#History #Quests #Fields
“So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Country #Children #Biblical
“America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#America #Liberty #Custodians
“Try and fail,but don't fail to try.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Inspirational #Perseverance #Cheer
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Peace #War #America
“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Positive #Kind #Life Is
“My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Morning #Godly #Rising
“All that I am my mother made me.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Mom #Mother #Made
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
-- John Quincy Adams

#Bible #God #Religious

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