The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAmerica, 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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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