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.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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