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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:14:37 +0000

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:13:26 +0000

In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation [of the United States] is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:10:38 +0000

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application – laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:07:40 +0000

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented by all the southern patriots of the Revolution.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:04:52 +0000

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:58:15 +0000

It is so obvious to every reasonable being, that he did not make himself.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:54:10 +0000

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:48:48 +0000

And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” [Isaiah 52:10].

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:46:07 +0000

Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time.

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John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:42:58 +0000

Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth.