I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.
John Quincy AdamsAmerica... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
John Quincy AdamsThe will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
John Quincy AdamsTo believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
John Quincy AdamsLet us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.
John Quincy Adams