To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.


Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams (ed. 1848)

John Quincy Adams Quotes

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history...

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history...

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history...

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history...