John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adamswas an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth11 July 1767
CountryUnited States of America
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I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
law use arbitrary
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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The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.
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Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.
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The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
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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.
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The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
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Whoever tells the best story wins.
independent law people
From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.
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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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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.
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The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
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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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His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.