John Quincy Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: 6th U.S. President
Life: July 11, 1767 - February 28, 1848
Birthday: July 11
Death: February 28
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
source: John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”
topic: Horse, Men, Race, Paine, Simile, Tom Paine
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