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Virtue is not always amiable.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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