You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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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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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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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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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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