To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.
John Quincy AdamsThere is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
John Quincy AdamsThere is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
John Quincy Adams