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John
Quincy Adams
6th President
of the United States.
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John Quincy Adams
"Three points of doctrine, the belief
of which forms the foundation of all morality. The
first is the existence of a God; the second is the
immortality of the human soul; and the third is a
future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it
is possible for a man to disbelieve either of these
articles of faith and that man will have no conscience,
he will have no other law than that of the tiger or
the shark; the laws of man may bind him in chains
or may put him to death, but they never can make him
wise, virtuous, or happy."
(Source: John Quincy Adams, Letters
of John Quincy Adams to his son on the Bible and its
teachings ( Auburn: James M. Alden, 1850), pp. 22-23.)
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