John Quincy Adams recorded the Masonic oath.
John Quincy Adams, Letters on the Entered Apprentice's Oath (Boston: Young Men's Antimasonic Association, 1833), 6
"I promise and swear, should I ever see that sign [the grand hailing sign of distress] or hear the word accompanying it, and the person who gave it appearing to be in distress, I will fly to his relief at the risk of my life, should there be a greater probability of saving his life than losing my own."