Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSThus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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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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