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John Quincy Adams Quotes: Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
         

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!


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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.




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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.



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America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.



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I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.



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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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