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It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

~John Quincy Adams

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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

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Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

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The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

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I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

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According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: July 11th, 1767

Died: February 23rd, 1848

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