It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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