Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAmerica, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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