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• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
  -- John Quincy Adam...
• President John Quincy Adams owned a pet alligator which he kept in the East Room of the White House.
• All that I am my mother made me. -- John Quincy Adam
• Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
  -- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) -- Speech at Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1802...
• This is the last of earth! I am content. -- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) -- His Last Words, Feb.
  21, 1848...
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly.
  To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adam...
• Is it not that, in the chain of events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?
  .... Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission?...
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly.
  To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)...
• I inhabit a week, 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.
  -- John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848...