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• I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

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  Morning, Reading, Years

  John Quincy Adams (1970). “The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814”, Arno Pr

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• Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

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  Religious, Liberty, Foundation

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

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  Government, Republican, Manners

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• There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

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  Christian, Atheism, Spirit

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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• We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

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  Blood, Redemption, May

  "History of the Rebellion: Its Authors and Causes". Book by Joshua Reed Giddings, 1864.

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• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

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  Bible, Faith, Book

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• America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

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  Peace, America, Independence

  Friedrich von Gentz, John Quincy Adams, Richard Loss (1800). “The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction”, Academic Resources Corp

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• My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

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  Sometimes, Christ, Tenors

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• 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.

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  Morning, Years, Practice

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• We know the redemption must come.

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  Redemption, Knows

  "History of the Rebellion: Its Authors and Causes". Book by Joshua Reed Giddings, 1864.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Science, Benefits

  "Smithsonian Perspectives" by I. Michael Heyman, www.smithsonianmag.com. February 1996.

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• The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

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  Law, Arbitrary, Use

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• I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

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  Country, Circles, Presidential

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• To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

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  Hands, Limbs, Seems

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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• The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

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  Country, History, Age

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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• Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

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  Powerful, Charity, Moral

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.329, Library of America

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• It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

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  Inspirational Life, Past, Thorough Knowledge

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• Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

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  4th Of July, Events, World

  John Quincy Adams; Speech on Independence Day in Newburyport, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 4, 1837.

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• The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

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  Religious, Law, Moral

  "Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams".

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• Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

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  Life, Men, Problem

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• I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

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  Bible Reading, Years, Practice

  Abiel Abbot LIVERMORE, John Quincy Adams (1848). “The Ancient and Honorable Man. A Discourse [on Isaiah Iii. 1-3] Preached on the Occasion of the Death of Hon. J. Q. Adams, Etc”, p.13

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• Westward the star of empire takes its way.

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  Stars, Progress, Empires

  John Quincy Adams (1802). “An Oration, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1802, at the anniversary commemoration of the first landing of our ancestors at that place”, p.31

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Integrity, Son

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• 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?

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  History, Quests, Fields

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• I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

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  Friendship, Strong, Cheer

  JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.21

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