Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWe 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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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