If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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