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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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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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