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John Quincy Adams

11 July 1767-23 February 1848

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Fame is that parasite of pride, ever scornful to meekness, and ever obsequious to insolent power.

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Henry Clay is, like almost all the eminent men of this country, only half educated. His morals, public and private, are loose.

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Henry Clay is man with the gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition, and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

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John Quincy Adams is a man of reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners: my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage.

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John Tyler is a slave-monger whose talents are not above mediocrity, and with a spirit incapable of expansion to the dimensions of the station upon which he has been cast by the hand of providence.

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Life is a problem ; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.