Virtue is not always amiable.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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