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John Quincy Adams

 

John Quincy Adams, byname Old Man Eloquent, (July 11, 1767 — February 23, 1848), sixth president of the United States (1825–1829) and eldest son of President John Adams. In his pre-presidential years he was one of America’s greatest diplomats (formulating, among other things, the Monroe Doctrine), and in his post-presidential years (as a U.S. congressman, 1831–1848) he conducted a consistent and often dramatic fight against the expansion of slavery.

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Three Points of Doctrine

"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. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy."

John Quincy Adams
Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son on the Bible and Its Teachings
Auburn: Alden, 1850 pp. 22-23

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