We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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 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 conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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