More from John Quincy Adams

  1. I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing…
  2. And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, t…
  3. 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 o…
  4. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand …
  5. This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,<br<For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For g…
  6. All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
  7. To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is...the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlar…
  8. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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