Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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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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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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