I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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