My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
John Quincy AdamsThe Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
John Quincy AdamsI would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
John Quincy Adams