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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

John Quincy Adams

Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Goodness Preservation Yourself
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Democracy Foundation Human Right Theory
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
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Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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Charity Compassionate Human Man
A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
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Man Myself Nation Politics
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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Desire Discover Early Heart Man Praise Recognition
America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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Destroy Freedom Herself Independence Search
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
Virtue is not always amiable.
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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

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