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John Quincy Adams [1767-1848] American
Rank: 101
President, 6th U.S. President


John Quincy Adams was 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.

Government, Alone, Courage, Independence, Leadership, Men, Patience, Politics, Power



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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. Leadership
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. Patience
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. Government
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. Alone, Politics
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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. Men
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. Courage
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. Power
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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. Government
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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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The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other. Independence
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From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
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