Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPosterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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 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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the 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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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