John Quincy Adams Quotes

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.

John Quincy Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848

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In 1971, the U.S. 'closed the gold window,' starting an era of global fiat money reference-pricing that has been unprecedented in history. Never before had the world operated on the basis of no country anywhere having a currency tied to something with intrinsic value like gold.

Max Keiser

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You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

Robert Rinder

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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

John Polanyi

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When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

John Ridley

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The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.

Amity Shlaes

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I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.

Steve Breen

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When I am skating, economics is far away. I always return refreshed and ready to carry on.

Robert F. Engle

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A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Ronald Reagan

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Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

Mike Rogers

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As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Jay Alan Sekulow

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Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.

Christopher Buckley

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When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is. Where are you on that scale? I know where I am.

Anthea Butler

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