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
4th-of-july world festivals
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?.
bible world creation
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
book world deserve
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
exercise reflection world
It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.
religious warfare world
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.
morning years practice
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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I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
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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.
heaven treasure earth
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.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
men years justice
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
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America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.