I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history.

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A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican gove...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
"Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS