Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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