Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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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.
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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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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.
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