Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSMy toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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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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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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