I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
John Quincy AdamsWhether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.
John Quincy AdamsNo book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
John Quincy AdamsMy 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 AdamsI shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.
John Quincy Adams