You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTry and fail, but don’t fail to try.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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 desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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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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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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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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