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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (/ˈkwɪnzi/ ( listen);[a] July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator, United States Senator, U.S. Representative (Congressman) from Massachusetts, and the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He was the son of second president John Adams (1735–1826, served 1797–1801) and his wife, Abigail Adams. He was a member of the Federalists, like his father, but later switched to the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties when they were organized.

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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.

Acquiring, Benefits, Life, Mean, Science, Sphere

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. . . A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. . . The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

Dissolution, Fundamentals, Principles, Slavery, Stain, Union

Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth is but a term of childhood, in which he is to be educated for the manhood of a brighter world. As the child must be educated for manhood upon earth, so the man must be educated upon earth, for heaven; and finally that where the foundation is not laid in time, the superstructure can not rise for eternity.

Brighter, Children, Education, Period, School, Teacher

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. . . it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

4Th Of July, Business, Capable, Inadequate, Power, Religious

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.

Sometimes, Christ, Tenors, Conduct, Tenor, Hopes

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.

Charity, Mingled, Moral, Powerful, Rites, Superstitious

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible. . . it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

Bible, Education, History, Ignorant, Men

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

Powerful, Heart, Character, Human, Among, Veneration

. . . he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. . . The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.

War, Islam, Muhammad, Exterminating, Koran

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

Body, Breath, Poison, Sarcastic, Tongue

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented. . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

Attempt, Common, Country, Fastened, Hypocrisy, Mother

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Begins, Elections, Patriotic, Slavery, Voting

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

Book, Deserve, Deserves, Studied, World

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

Embrace, Understand, Understanding, Who We Are

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent. . . sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

Cause, Continent, Country, Gentleman, Sacrifice

I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

Country, Night, Land, Place, Day, Scepter

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman. . . supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

Love, Men, Imagination, Woman, Place

It is essential. . that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions. . It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

Bible, Conduct, Government, Passion, Temper

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

Bearing, Community, Discharging, Hands, Operation, Suits

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

Art, Invention, Love, Open, Yankees, Zero

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