Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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