Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
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"Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams"
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams"
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams"
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"He must become an apprentice to ordinary life."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams"
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams"
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams"
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul"."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks"."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"He had to pause for his usual misgivings."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life