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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

John Quincy Adams

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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Charity Compassionate Human Man
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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Goodness Preservation Yourself
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Courage Difficult Inspirational Magic Perseverance
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Democracy Foundation Human Right Theory
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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Character Hands Nation Oneself War
My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Myself Ourselves Right Success
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
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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Alone Lost Principle Reflection Vote
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Failure Inspirational
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
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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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong

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