37 Quotes by Paul C. Nagel

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

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.

Only an Adams could convert naïveté into bravado.

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.

John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

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.

I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams.